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English
Etymology
From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English blētsung, blēdsung (“a blessing”), equivalent to bless + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
blessing (plural blessings)
- Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XVII, page 28: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.
- A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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.
- Good fortune.
- (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.
- The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.
- Something someone is glad of.
After two weeks of sun, last night's rainfall was a blessing.
- A prayer before a meal; grace.
- A group of unicorns.
- 2009, Andrew Orlowski, "Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register, 13 September 2011:
- Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.
2011, Suzette Mayr, Monoceros, Coach House Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 94: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.
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divine or supernatural aid or reward
- Albanian: bekim (sq) m
- Arabic: بَرَكَة f (baraka), نِعْمَة f (niʕma)
- Armenian: օրհնություն (hy) (ōrhnutʻyun)
- Aromanian: urãciuni
- Avestan: 𐬀𐬴𐬌 (aṣ̌i)
- Azerbaijani: bərəkət (az)
- Belarusian: блаславе́нне n (blaslavjénnje), благаславе́нне n (blahaslavjénnje)
- Bengali: বরকত (bn) (borkot), নেয়ামত (bn) (neẏamot), আশীর্বাদ (bn) (aśirbad)
- Bulgarian: благослови́я f (blagoslovíja)
- Catalan: benedicció f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 祝福 (zh) (zhùfú)
- Czech: požehnání (cs) n
- Danish: velsignelse c
- Dutch: zegen (nl) f
- Esperanto: beno
- Finnish: siunaus (fi)
- French: bénédiction (fr) f, grâce (fr) f
- Galician: beizón m, bendición (gl) f
- Georgian: კურთხევა (ḳurtxeva)
- German: Segen (de) m, Segnung (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (þiuþeins)
- Gujarati: આશીર્વાદ (gu) n (āśīrvād)
- Hausa: albarka
- Hebrew: בְּרָכָה (he) f (b'rakhá)
- Hindi: आशीर्वाद (hi) m (āśīrvād)
- Hungarian: áldás (hu)
- Irish: beannacht f
- Italian: benedizione (it)
- Japanese: 祝福 (ja) (しゅくふく, shukufuku)
- Kapampangan: kalam
- Kazakh: алғыс (alğys), бата (kk) (bata)
- Korean: 축복 (ko) (chukbok)
- Kyrgyz: бата (ky) (bata)
- Latin: benedictiō f
- Macedonian: благослов m (blagoslov)
- Maltese: barka f
- Manx: bannaght f
- Marathi: आशीर्वाद (mr) m (āśīrvād)
- Middle English: benysoun
- Ngazidja Comorian: ɓaraka class 9/10
- Norman: bénédiction f (Jersey)
- Oromo: eebba
- Ottoman Turkish: بركت (bereket), دعا (duʼâ)
- Persian: موهبت (fa) (mohebat), برکت (fa) (barekat)
- Plautdietsch: Säajen m
- Polish: błogosławieństwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: bênção (pt) f
- Romanian: binecuvântare (ro) f, benedicțiune (ro) f
- Russian: благослове́ние (ru) n (blagoslovénije), ми́лость (ru) f (mílostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: beannachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бла̏госло̄в m
- Roman: blȁgoslōv (sh) m
- Sidamo: maasso
- Slovak: požehnanie n
- Slovene: blagoslov (sl)
- Spanish: bendición (es) f
- Swahili: baraka (sw)
- Swedish: välsignelse (sv) c
- Tagalog: biyaya
- Tajik: баракат (barakat), фотиҳа (fotiha)
- Tatar: бәрәкәт (tt) (bäräkät)
- Turkish: bereket (tr)
- Ukrainian: благослове́ння (uk) n (blahoslovénnja), благослові́ння n (blahoslovínnja), благослове́нство (uk) n (blahoslovénstvo)
- Urdu: برکت f (barkat), نعمت f (nēmat)
- Welsh: bendith (cy) f
- West Frisian: segen c
- Yiddish: ברכה f (brokhe)
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pronouncement invoking divine aid
(paganism) modern pagan ceremony
act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor
prayer before a meal
— see grace
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Verb
blessing
- present participle and gerund of bless
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