Meaning of godsend | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An instance of unexpected benefit or good fortune; a windfall.
2. The wreck of a ship which has washed up on shore, from which cargo, timber, etc., may be obtained.
   British, archaic, regional, specifically
3. A person who provides greatly needed assistance.

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Examples

“"You do, indeed, seem to take⟳ it to heart!" exclaimed the actress, an expression of jealous anger crossing her features; "why, it is quite a God-send for you! many a heart is caught in the rebound.[…]"”

“[O]nce again, as in 1803, we were on the brink of being sacrificed to the very lunacies of retrenchment. By a mere god-send, more troops happened to arrive⟳ from the Indian continent.”

“By this time my wife was in Barcelona and used to send⟳ me tea, chocolate, and even cigars when such things were procurable; but even in Barcelona everything was running short, especially tobacco. The tea was a godsend, though we had no milk and seldom any sugar.”

“To the onlooker, and particularly to those whose memories go back to pre-grouping days, the modern cavalcade of "V2s" and "B1s" is apt to become⟳ a little monotonous; but to any running man the general utility characteristics of these two classes are a perfect godsend at times of exceptional pressure, when it is often a case of "first in—first out" with locomotive allocations at sheds.”

“Its seldom sic [such] rich Godsends come⟳ on our coast—no since the Jenny and James came ashore in King Charlie's time.”

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