Noun

(en noun)

Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.

A pronouncement invoking divine aid.

*, chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

Good fortune.

(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.

The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.

A thing one is glad of.

A prayer before a meal; grace.

A group of unicorns.

* 2008 , Betsy Schiffman, " Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report", Wired , 11 September 2008:

And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.

* 2009 , Andrew Orlowski, " Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register , 13 September 2011:

Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.

* 2011 , Suzette Mayr, Monoceros , Coach House Books (2011), ISBN 9781552452417, page 94:

She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.

Noun

(blasphemies)

Irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable.

That imam said that drawing the prophet Muhammad is a form of blasphemy .

The act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for any religion's deity or deities.

The act of claiming the attributes of a deity.