meaning of blesses
1. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (ones self).
6. To guard; to keep; to protect.
7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
9. To wave; to brandish.
10. give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his
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Related Words
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