That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white, “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight” That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small, “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”
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Benison
//ˈbɛnɪsən//
Synonyms for "benison" (16 found)
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4 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- благослови́я noun (blessing)
Galician
1 entries- beizón noun (blessing)
German
1 entries- Segen noun (blessing)
Russian
1 entries- благослове́ние noun (blessing)
Sample sentences
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Poor old men! how could they be cordial with their sore consciences and shamed faces? how could they bid God bless him with hearty voices and a true benison, knowing, as they did, that their vile cabal had driven him from his happy home, and sent him in his old age to seek shelter under a strange roof-tree?
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