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Definition of Blessings
1. blessing [n] - See also: blessing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blessings
Literary usage of Blessings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the Pontifical are found the blessings that are performed de jure by bishops,
... The great treasury of ecclesiastical blessings Is the Roman Ritual. ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE Blessings OF PEACE Extract from a speech delivered in the Alabama ... Sir,
the blessings that are to come upon the State from this revolution, ..."
3. The Works of Joseph Bellamy by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1850)
"But for God to require sin, and bind his creatures by a most solemn covenant to
sin, and promise them peculiar blessings if they will sin, in the manner his ..."
4. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XLIX Of the desire after eternal life, and how great blessings are promised
to those who strive " MY Son, ..."
5. A Parody Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1904)
"AFTER DRYDEN THREE Blessings fI ... brightest blessings of this thirsty race,
I (Whence sprung and when I don't propose to trace); Pale brandy, ..."