benison

Noun

Meaning

Blessing; beatitude; benediction.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Here a little child I stand Heaving up my either hand. Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, For a benison to fall On our meat, and on us all. Robert Herrick (poet)

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Neither Davis nor Sheriff Benison could be reached for comment. Source: Internet

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