Blessing vs Possession - What's the difference?
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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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Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Something that is owned.
Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
A territory under the rule of another country.
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
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(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
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(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
Blessing is a related term of possession.
As nouns the difference between blessing and possession
is that blessing is some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward while possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.As a verb possession is
(obsolete) to invest with property.blessing
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Noun
(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.}}
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- 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.
Antonyms
* curseDerived terms
* blessing in disguise * count one's blessings * mixed blessingAnagrams
* English collective nounspossession
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Noun
(wikipedia possession) (en noun)- The car quickly became his most prized possession .
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- The car is in my possession .
- I'm in possession of the car.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
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- Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession''' — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable '''possession — my foot will always be mine.