What is another word for benediction?

Pronunciation: [bˌɛnɪdˈɪkʃən] (IPA)

Benediction is a word used to refer to a prayer, blessing, or invocation given at the end of a religious service. Synonyms for the word benediction include invocation, prayer, blessing, grace, thanksgiving, praise, worship, devotion, and adoration. Other related words that can be used as synonyms for benediction include hymn, liturgy, chant, and doxology. Depending on the context in which the word is used, some synonyms may be more appropriate than others. However, all of these words have a religious connotation and are commonly used in a spiritual or church-related setting.

Synonyms for Benediction:

What are the hypernyms for Benediction?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • hypernyms for benediction (as nouns)

What are the hyponyms for Benediction?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the opposite words for benediction?

The antonyms for "benediction" would include words such as curse, malediction, imprecation, and damnation. These words have negative connotations and are typically used to express anger, malice, or ill will towards someone or something. While a benediction is a blessing, a curse or malediction is the opposite - a hateful invocation intended to harm or bring misfortune upon its target. Imprecations are similar to curses in that they are an expression of resentment or disapproval. Finally, damnation is typically associated with religious beliefs and refers to the concept of eternal punishment or condemnation.

What are the antonyms for Benediction?

Usage examples for Benediction

We were awed into stillness and silence, however, when she raised her hand in benediction.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
Now she was gone, but it remained, and it helped to keep fresh and vigorous the memories which made Thomas Dudley's daily life a benediction to all who came within its radius.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
The Major had started forward, but now he stopped and his head sank as under a benediction.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey

Famous quotes with Benediction

  • Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.
    John Pearson
  • In each of the cathedral churches there was a bishop, or an archbishop of fools, elected; and in the churches immediately dependent upon the papal see a pope of fools. These mock pontiffs had usually a proper suit of ecclesiastics who attended upon them, and assisted at the divine service, most of them attired in ridiculous dresses resembling pantomimical players and buffoons; they were accompanied by large crowds of the laity, some being disguised with masks of a monstrous fashion, and others having their faces smutted; in one instance to frighten the beholders, and in the other to excite their laughter: and some, again, assuming the habits of females, practised all the wanton airs of the loosest and most abandoned of the sex. During the divine service this motley crowd were not contended with singing of indecent songs in the choir, but some of them ate, and drank, and played at dice upon the altar, by the side of the priest who celebrated the mass. After the service they put filth into the censers, and ran about the church, leaping, dancing, laughing, singing, breaking obscene jests, and exposing themselves in the most unseemly attitudes with shameless impudence. Another part of these ridiculous ceremonies was, to shave the precentor of fools upon a stage erected before the church, in the presence of the populace; and during the operation, he amused them with lewd and vulgar discourses, accompanied by actions equally reprehensible. The bishop, or the pope of fools, performed the divine service habited in the pontifical garments, and gave his benediction to the people before they quitted the church. He was afterwards seated in an open carriage, and drawn about to the different parts of the town, attended by a large train of ecclesiastics and laymen promiscuously mingled together; and many of the most profligate of the latter assumed clerical habits in order to give their impious fooleries the greater effect; they had also with them carts filled with ordure, which they threw occasionally upon the populace assembled to see the procession. These spectacles were always exhibited at Christmas-time, or near to it, but not confined to one particular day.
    Joseph Strutt
  • When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
    T. S. Eliot
  • We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.
    Isaac Leib Peretz
  • He had a face like a benediction.
    Miguel de Cervantes

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