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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My pardon and prayers had prevail'd, I had blest thee, and bade thee farewel!
From Poems by Matilda Betham
The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And show'd the names whom love of God had blest, And lo!
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Erle Elsworth Clippinger
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
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 next night He came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blest, And lo!
From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field
