Blessing

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt Grateful praise or worship.

II. Blessing ·vt The act of one who blesses.

III. Blessing ·vt A Gift.

IV. Blessing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Bless.

V. Blessing ·vt A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.

VI. Blessing ·vt A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.