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  • verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of bless

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bless + -est

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Examples

  • For when Balak bade him to come to him, he said (Num. xxii: 6), “For I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.”

    Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

  • Blessed be Thou, O Lord, who blessest Thy people Israel by giving them peace.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.

    1 Chronicles 17. 1999

  • For when I am evil, then to confess to Thee is nothing else than to be displeased with myself; but when holy, nothing else than not to ascribe it to myself: because Thou, O Lord, blessest the godly, but first Thou justifieth him when ungodly.

    The Confessions 1999

  • Behold, Thou blessest mankind, O Lord, that they may increase and multiply, and replenish the earth; dost Thou not thereby give us a hint to understand something? why didst Thou not as well bless the light, which Thou calledst day; nor the firmament of heaven, nor the lights, nor the stars, nor the earth, nor the sea?

    The Confessions 1999

  • Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

    Psalms 65. 1999

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