Examples from literature

• And as Anthony went out of the room he heard benedictions mingled with sobs following him. 
• He lifted up his hands to give them his benediction, and we all knelt to receive it. 
• Here the banners drew up in a vast semicircle enclosing the great audience, and vespers were sung, after which the fifty thousand worshipers knelt and received the benediction, which was pronounced by eight bishops simultaneously. 
• The lifted hand, the bared head, the earnest accents, with which these words were spoken, gave to this simple utterance of good-will all the solemnity of a benediction or prayer. 
• Yet pardon me, father, for my rashness, and bestow your benediction!