unblessing

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

unblessing

  1. present participle and gerund of unbless

Noun[edit]

unblessing (plural unblessings)

  1. Something that makes one's life worse.
    • 1972, Konrad Kellen, The Coming Age of Woman Power, page 37:
      He never counts his unblessings, as any man should, never faces them; for the purveyors of integration propaganda all around him have warned him that he must count only his blessings.
    • 2006, Donald Sevener, First Church of the Everlasting Aints, →ISBN, page 4:
      Henry Snow sat in the pastor's study of the First Church of the Everlasting Saints, counting his unblessings.
    • 2018, Julie Maloney, A Matter of Chance: A Novel, →ISBN, page 119:
      I don't want unblessings, and neither should you.