BENEDICTION Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

benediction

noun

ˌbe-nə-ˈdik-shən

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as in blessing

a prayer calling for divine care, protection, or favor the priest offered a benediction for the missing children

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as in benefit

something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing the library's silence was a welcome benediction to someone, like me, who needed to concentrate

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Recent Examples on the Web The program will close with a benediction followed by a white dove release. —

Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024 Guns play a defining role in Rod of Iron Ministries, which elevates the Second Amendment to divine benediction. —

TIME, 4 Apr. 2024 The closing of a letter suits the liminal space of the benediction. —

Julia Cho, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2024 But in the midst of this winter of our discontent, her latest piece, the ravishing Terce: A Practical Breviary, now playing at the Space at Irondale in Park Slope, feels almost like a benediction. —

Adam Green, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for benediction

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