Toronto Blessing

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noun

the Toronto Blessing a variety of emotional reactions such as laughing, weeping, and fainting, experienced by participants in a form of charismatic Christian worship

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Word Origin for Toronto Blessing

C20: from Toronto, where it originated

Words nearby Toronto Blessing

Tornwaldt's abscess, toro, toroid, toroidal, Toronto, Toronto Blessing, Torontonian, torose, torpedo, torpedo boat, torpedo-boat destroyer

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How to use Toronto Blessing in a sentence

A friendly twenty-something woman originally from Toronto said it best.
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One night in 2004, my college boyfriend called me from inside a closet in a north Toronto housing project.
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“We opened the Toronto Film Festival with The Fifth Estate, and there was an immediate rejection of it,” he says.
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And it gave Baghdadi the opportunity to praise his new minions, blessing them as his official representatives.
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We agreed on the Sheppard Centre shopping mall in north Toronto because it was convenient.
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Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.
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To know, to love, and to be loved by such a man as Burne-Jones was a supreme blessing in his life.
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Jacob cheated his brother out of the parental blessing, and lied about God, and lied to his father to accomplish his end.
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His last words when he bade me farewell, and gave me his blessing were, to remember always to think twice before I spoke once.
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It has more than verified all predictions as to its usefulness, and has proved a blessing to north-west Donegal.
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