- present tense form of bless (3rd person singular).
blesses
Example Sentences
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Professor Hughes, in all probability, will not win the 1935 Pulitzer Prize with The Lord Blesses the Bishop.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now the cavern door uncloses, now the saint above him stands, Blesses him without a word, and leaves a token in his hands.
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry
My spirit leaps within me; a new glory Blesses the dear, familiar scene—ripe orchard, The same—yet oh, how different!
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma
Spring it is Blesses the fruit-plantation, Spring the groves; In Spring earth swells and claims the fruitful seed.
From The Georgics by Virgil
My hand, unfit before, Feeble still, but feverless, And which palpitates no more Save with a desire to bless, Blesses you, O little flies Of my black suns and white nights.
From Poems of Paul Verlaine by Brownell, Gertrude Hall