bless
verb (used with object)
to consecrate or sanctify by a religious rite; make or pronounce holy.
had blest
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past perfectof bless.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He would send the children into a free state, there to be educated; that they may live in the enjoyment of those rights with which nature had blest them.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
The growing realms, behind thy shield that rest, Paternal monarch, still thy power had blest, Enjoy'd the pleasures that surround thy throne, Survey'd thy virtues and improved their own.
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
And now, like the spendthrift forsaken, By those whom his bounty had blest, All empty, and cold, and despairing, It shrinks in my desolate breast.
From The Diary of an Ennuyée by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
"I am the resurrection and the life," Some old man then would, with a solemn voice, Read from that Bible that so oft had blest The Hermit's solitude with heavenly chear.
From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson
If I had, blest if that goat-stalker should have had my boots!
From !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War by Charles Mills Sheldon
