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Definition of Blesses

1. bless [v] - See also: bless

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blesses

Literary usage of Blesses

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)
"According to this, a terrible dragon had ravaged all the country already in the dragon's clutches, while an abbot stands by and blesses the rescuer. ST. ..."

2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... Nor busies her to trim the cot; Pensive she turns her humming wheel, Yet blesses, ere she deals their bread, i« Or pensive cooks her orphans' meal, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... make a burnt-offering of him, and proceeds to obey, but is spared the sacrifice by Yahwe, who accepts a stray ram instead and blesses him for his faith. ..."

4. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"255 And, in proportion as it blesses, A E.Hf. iii. 300 Of Vice or Virtue, whether A or curst EM iv. 87 liest knows the blessing, and will most be A EM iv. ..."

5. 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)
"According to this, a terrible dragon had ravaged all the country already in the dragon's clutches, while an abbot stands by and blesses the rescuer. ST. ..."

6. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... Nor busies her to trim the cot; Pensive she turns her humming wheel, Yet blesses, ere she deals their bread, i« Or pensive cooks her orphans' meal, ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... make a burnt-offering of him, and proceeds to obey, but is spared the sacrifice by Yahwe, who accepts a stray ram instead and blesses him for his faith. ..."

8. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"255 And, in proportion as it blesses, A E.Hf. iii. 300 Of Vice or Virtue, whether A or curst EM iv. 87 liest knows the blessing, and will most be A EM iv. ..."

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