0 a prayer asking God for help and protection for someone
1 a prayer asking for God’s help and protection
And as Anthony went out of the room he heard benedictions mingled with sobs following him.
He lifted up his hands to give them his benediction, and we all knelt to receive it.
Here the banners drew up in a vast semicircle enclosing the great audience, and vespers were sung, after which the fifty thousand worshipers knelt and received the benediction, which was pronounced by eight bishops simultaneously.
The lifted hand, the bared head, the earnest accents, with which these words were spoken, gave to this simple utterance of good-will all the solemnity of a benediction or prayer.
Yet pardon me, father, for my rashness, and bestow your benediction!
Is there a morphological analysis in such words as boisterous, ambassador, annual, poem (cf. poet), agrarian, armor, benediction, crucial, or worn?
In the light of benediction they glow bright as gold.
Beyond this royal privilege the rabbis decreed that relations even with one's bride are forbidden until the marriage benedictions have been pronounced.
