bless
verb (used with object)
to consecrate or sanctify by a religious rite; make or pronounce holy.
has blest
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present perfectof bless (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Thou to him wert cruel, But Heaven has blest him, shielding him from harm.
From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Richard James Horatio Gottheil
The doctrine of pre-existence is not a fable, yet to have lived two lives belongs only to a chosen few, or those whom a fortuitous circumstance has blest.
From Strange Visitors by Henry J. Horn
Fate still has blest me with a friend, In every care and ill; And oft a more endearing hand, A tie more tender still.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
I have seen her once," said the old man; "and he who has done that can never forget the vision of beauty that has blest his eyes.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
Pope says very truly: "There are whom heaven has blest with store of wit; Yet want as much again to govern it."
From Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752 by Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
