benediction
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benediktio
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Substantiivi
benediction englanniksi
A short invocation for help, blessing and guidance from God, said on behalf of another person or persons (sometimes at the end of a church worship service).
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(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Richardson Clarissa)
(RQ:Eliot Daniel Deronda)
{{quote-text|en|year=1961|author=V. S. Naipaul|title=A House for Mr Biswas|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1992|section=Part 2, Chapter 6, p. 537|url=https://archive.org/details/houseformrbiswas00vsna_1
In the Anglican church, the ceremony used to institute an abbot, analogous to the consecration of a bishop.
{{quote-book|en|year=1726|author=John Ayliffe|title=Parergon juris canonici anglicani: or, A commentary, by way of supplement to the canons and constitutions of the Church of England|location=London|publisher=for the author|chapter=Of Abbots, Priors, Abbies, Priories, &c.|page=13|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010430221
A Catholic rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with water and formally dedicated to God.
(RQ:Waugh Brideshead Revisited)
Help, good fortune or reward from God or another supernatural source.
(RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale) they throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer:
(RQ:Longfellow Evangeline)