benediction
Example Sentences
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But even he receives a mote of benediction, especially when he commits sins he can’t undo.
From Salon • Sep. 7, 2025
They emerge from within a rocky outcropping in an otherwise grassy field and hold up their hands, as if in benediction.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024
“For this reason, pastoral prudence must adequately discern whether there are forms of benediction, requested by one or more persons, that do not transmit a mistaken conception of marriage,” he wrote.
From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2023
When the men removed the screens with the same perfect synchronization, Charles was revealed, kneeling in a simple white shirt, surrounded by four gold-and-white-robed clerics, their hands raised in benediction.
From New York Times • May 6, 2023
The effect of it wasn’t very dignified, so Father retreated back to his pulpit made of wired-together palm fronds and raised up one hand, intending I guess to pronounce the benediction.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing benediction
Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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