Both Uses
benediction
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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- There, when every body else had partaken of the communion, and the benediction had been pronounced, the minister said, "Come down, now, my colored friends."†
Chpt 12 *
- The benediction was pronounced.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(benediction) a prayer asking that someone be blessed -- especially the closing prayer offered by a clergyman at the end of a worship service that asks for God's blessing of the congregation
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)