Blessing vs Malediction - What's the difference?
blessing | malediction |
Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
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(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.
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As nouns the difference between blessing and malediction
is that blessing is some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward while malediction is spell, curse (supernatural detriment).blessing
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(en noun)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.}}
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.
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- Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.
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- 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.
