Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam, My blessing, like a line of light, Is on the waters day and night, And like a beacon guards thee home.
A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Good fortune.
He was given blessings hoping he would pass his final exam.
present participle and gerund of bless
A surname.
A male given name of mainly African usage.
From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English blētsung, blēdsung (“a blessing”), equivalent to bless + -ing.
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