benediction 的定义
- an utterance of good wishes.
- the form of blessing pronounced by an officiating minister, as at the close of divine service.
- a ceremony by which things are set aside for sacred uses, as a church, vestments, or bells.
- Also called Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. a service consisting of prayers, at least one prescribed hymn, censing of the congregation and the Host, and a blessing of the congregation by moving in the form of a cross the ciborium or monstrance containing the Host.
- the advantage conferred by blessing; a mercy or benefit.
benediction 近义词
closing prayer
更多benediction例句
- He sets the pace for The Card Counter, which is what you might call a pensive fairytale, a story about guilt that can be burned away only with the benediction of love.
- He makes a little tart for himself, folding nubs of hard butter into a pile of flour, a few granules of which float down around his pig comrade’s radiant, upturned face like a benediction.
- But even before this celebrity benediction, Brooklyn was thriving in the City of Lights.
- The resulting pictures of Angelina, dipping her head as she receives the Sovereign's benediction, have gone around the world.
- Why do politicians and policy-makers need the benediction of celebrity to do their jobs?
- Where their benediction fell, their flocks were sure to go—or that was the idea.
- Finally one Christmas the queen sent over a gift of a Labrador retriever, indicating a social benediction of sorts.
- Those who have not received the benediction are pressing and elbowing each other to get near the altar.
- Those who have received the benediction are instantly away to the Opera House or the wood of Boulogne.
- The Rokurreas rose with one accord, and each turned to the men he was near to give them his parting benediction and salutation.
- Let us take farewell like men, without a murmur and without a tear, and let me receive the benediction of a father before I die.
- Man had wedded himself to Nature, and his works seemed to receive her seal and benediction.