Bless and Grant

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Bless verb - To furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute.

Usage example: blessed with a knack for glib conversation

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Grant is a synonym for bless in action topic. In some cases you can use "Grant" instead a verb "Bless", when it comes to topics like endow.

Nearby Words: blessing, blessedness, blest, blessedly

Grant verb - To accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly.

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Bless is a synonym for grant in authorize topic. Sometimes you can use "Bless" instead a verb "Grant".

Nearby Words: granted, granting, grantee, grantor

people	bless people	grant people
flight	bless flight	grant flight

To this end, Tzeentch deliberately sets up his plots to crash into each other, and while he's willing to grant his followers a portion of his arcane might and intellect, he's just as likely to bless them with a mutation or two.

Source: Blue And Orange Morality / Tabletop Games
In Italian, the "bless you" line said by Alan Grant when a Brachiosaurus sneezes is taken as a literal blessing as opposed to something you say to a sneezing person - therefore, it was translated as "Che tu sia benedetto" which roughly translates to "Might you be blessed".

Source: Blind Idiot Translation / Film
Brownies (the UK equivalent of Girl Scouts) often used to end meetings with a song to this tune: "Oh Lord our God/ Thy children call/ Grant us thy peace/ And bless us all." Nowadays, because of the reference to God, another song is often used instead.

Source: Westminster Chimes

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