All 3 Uses of
benediction
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- On Sundays, after Phoebe had been at church,—for the girl had a church-going conscience, and would hardly have been at ease had she missed either prayer, singing, sermon, or benediction,—after church-time, therefore, there was, ordinarily, a sober little festival in the garden.†
Chpt 10 *
- The daybeam—even what little of it finds its way into this always dusky parlor—seems part of the universal benediction, annulling evil, and rendering all goodness possible, and happiness attainable.†
Chpt 18
- It would have been enough to live for, merely to look up at the wide benediction of the sky, or as much of it as was visible between the houses, genial once more with sunshine.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
a prayer asking that someone be blessed -- especially the closing prayer offered by a clergyman at the end of a worship service that asks for God's blessing of the congregation