Definition of "blessing"

Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam,⁠My blessing, like a line of light,⁠Is on the waters day and night,And like a beacon guards thee home.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XVII, page 28

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.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton

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

2008 September 11, Betsy Schiffman, “Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report”, in Wired

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

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

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.

2011, Suzette Mayr, Monoceros, Coach House Books, published 2011, page 94