benediction

to pronounce / give / say the benediction; the nuptial benediction; a parting benediction

What Consecration is to a Bishop, that Benediction is to an Abbot; but in a different way: For a Bishop is not properly such till Consecration; but an Abbot being elected and confirm’d, is properly such before Benediction.

[He] later liked to attend benediction in the chapel at Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks arched in devotion under their black lace mantillas; …

[…] they throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer: