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# blessing

«blessing» in Mova's school dictionary: **a prayer asking God to protect and do good to someone or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a blessing, blessings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church) A blessing is a prayer asking God to protect and do good to someone or something, or God's favour itself; Christians believe blessings come from God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#m1)

2) A blessing is something good that you are glad and thankful for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#m2)

3) A blessing is permission or approval, as in «with my parents' blessing». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#m3)

4) A blessing in disguise is something that seems bad at first but turns out good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In church the priest gives a blessing at the end of the service; families say a blessing (grace) before meals; people say «count your blessings» to mean be thankful. In stories it tells the reader something good or approved has happened. Phrases: «count your blessings», «a mixed blessing», «a blessing in disguise», «give your blessing».

### examples

- The priest gave a blessing at the end of the service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#x1)
- We say a blessing before dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#x2)
- Good friends are a real blessing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#x3)
- Missing the bus was a blessing in disguise, because we met Grandma on the way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#x4)
- She married him with her father's blessing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#x5)
- Count your blessings: you have a home and people who love you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#x6)
- A big dog in a small flat is a mixed blessing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#x7)
- Some men underrate their best blessings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/#x8)

### note

Countable: a blessing, blessings. From the verb «bless» (bless, blessed). «Bless you!» is said after a sneeze. A «mixed blessing» has good and bad sides. Christians believe God's blessing is a gift, not a reward to be bought.

### In the corpora

- ["A blessing in disguise" means a bad thing that may turn out to be good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/13/)
- [Jacob tricked Esau out of his birthright and his father's blessing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/14/)
- [A service usually has songs, prayers, Bible readings, a sermon, often communion, and a blessing at the end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer/7/)
- [And he said: 'Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.812/)
- [And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.818/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blessing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blessing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.