blessing

sostantivo

1. 1

   Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.

   Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam, ⁠My blessing, like a line of light, ⁠Is on the waters day and night, And like a beacon guards thee home.

2. 2

   A pronouncement invoking divine aid.

   Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

3. 3

   Good fortune.

   He was given blessings hoping he would pass his final exam.

4. 4

   A modern pagan ceremony.

5. 5

   The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.

   We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.

   Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.

6. 6

   Something someone is glad of.

   After two weeks of sun, last night's rainfall was a blessing.

7. 7

   A prayer before a meal; grace.

8. 8

   A group of unicorns.

   And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.

   Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.

   She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.

verbo

1. 1

   Anche una forma di blesspresent participle and gerund of bless

Forme

plurale

blessings