bless vs burnish

bless

verb
  • To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. 

  • To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify. 

  • To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify. 

  • To invoke divine favor upon. 

  • To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence. 

  • To turn (a reference) into an object. 

intj
  • Used as an expression of endearment, gratitude, or (ironically) belittlement. 

burnish

verb
  • To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected. 

  • Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell. 

  • To appear positive and highly respected. 

  • To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth. 

  • Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out. 

  • Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet. 

  • To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine. 

noun
  • A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing. 

  • The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; (countable) an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining. 

  • A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish. 

How often have the words bless and burnish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )