The Only Use
benediction
in
Night, by Elie Wiesel
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- Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm.†
p. 67.2
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)