1. The act of blessing or invoking a blessing; a giving praise or thanks to God for blessings; a blessing pronounced; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness; thanks; the advantage conferred by blessing: the form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• benidiction,
• bendiction,
• venediction,
• nenediction,
• henediction,
• genediction,
• bwnediction,
• bsnediction,
• bdnediction,
• brnediction,
• b4nediction,
• b3nediction,
• bebediction,
• beneddiction,
• benedicton,
• benediciton,
• benediiction,
• benedicttion,
• benedictionnal,
• Benedictionel

• benedictive,
• benedick,
• benedictory,
• benedict,
• Bendickson,
• Benedicto,
• benedictine.

The adjective form of the word "benediction" is "benedictory".

The plural of the "benediction" can be the "benedictions".

The singular of the "benediction" can be the "benediction".