bless
verb (used with object)
to consecrate or sanctify by a religious rite; make or pronounce holy.
blessingly
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a word derived from
bless.
Example Sentences
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I thank God, my Gabriella," she said, laying her hand blessingly on my bowed head, "that you submit to His holy will, in a spirit of childlike submission.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
He placed His hand upon the boy's brown brow Caressingly and blessingly — and said: "I am so tired to wait."
From Poems: Patriotic, Religious by Abram Joseph Ryan
That so my purged, once human heart, From all the human rent, May gather strength to pledge and drink Your wine of wonderment, While you pardon me all blessingly The woe mine Adam sent.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
