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单词 benediction
释义
Examples from literature
  • And as Anthony went out of the room he heard benedictions mingled with sobs following him.
  • He lifted up his hands to give them his benediction, and we all knelt to receive it.
  • Here the banners drew up in a vast semicircle enclosing the great audience, and vespers were sung, after which the fifty thousand worshipers knelt and received the benediction, which was pronounced by eight bishops simultaneously.
  • The lifted hand, the bared head, the earnest accents, with which these words were spoken, gave to this simple utterance of good-will all the solemnity of a benediction or prayer.
  • Yet pardon me, father, for my rashness, and bestow your benediction!

Examplesofbenediction

benediction
Is there a morphological analysis in such words as boisterous, ambassador, annual, poem (cf. poet), agrarian, armor,benediction, crucial, or worn?
From theCambridge English Corpus
In the light ofbenedictionthey glow bright as gold.
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Beyond this royal privilege the rabbis decreed that relations even with one's bride are forbidden until the marriage benedictions have been pronounced.
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Inhabitants believed that the village's protective spiritual forces resided in these sites, also the source of benedictions for the village community.
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The invasion brought in huge numbers of converts; it was, for the missionaries, a blessing in disguise (benedictiondeguisee).
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Lkhe could not be held back any more: he scrambled for a royalbenediction.
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Some others remained behind, not with ourbenediction—but still, we hope they prospered by it.
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Nevertheless, we welcome the sincerity with which he gave hisbenediction.
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But £150 million of public money is a rather expensivebenediction.
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I know that hisbenedictionon her prospects has caused her some concern.
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It is a valediction,benedictionand imprecation all at the same time.
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In the country we feel a plenitude and a satisfaction, a peace and abenedictionsuch as nothing else can give—because we have come home.
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He went through them and pointed out in terms that he was able to give something of abenedictionto them all.
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It is true that as the days passed the benedictions became more tepid.
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I am rather nervous of these abstract nouns, particularly when they are pronounced like a sort of magic spell or abenediction.
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