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God bless you!

  1. Short for May God bless you; said as a short prayer, benediction, or valediction for the recipient.
    Synonym: God bless
    • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility [], volume III, London: [] C[harles] Roworth, [], and published by T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, pages 185–186:
      “But she will be gained by some one else. And if that some one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least bear—But I will not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good-will, by shewing that where I have most injured I can least forgive. Good bye,—God bless you!” And with these words, he almost ran out of the room.
  2. Said to somebody who has sneezed, as a rhetorical response; alternative form of bless you

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