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adjective

Benign adj.

Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant. "Creator bounteous and benign."

Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome. "Kind influences and benign aspects."

Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.

Synonyms: Kind; propitious; bland; genial; salubrious; favorable salutary; gracious; liberal.

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"Benign" Quotes from Famous Books

... bloody pages cease to testify against slavery. And, when we have come down to American slavery, you will not even open the book which records such facts, as that its subjects are forbidden to be joined in wedlock, and to read the Bible. No—you will not presume to look for a single evidence of the benign influences of a system, where, by the admission of your own ecclesiastical bodies, it has turned millions of men into heathen. I say nothing now of your beautiful and harmless theories of slavery:—but this I say, that when you look upon slavery as it has existed, or now exists, ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... involved in some trouble while here, which was entirely his own fault. He was discharged on September 23, 1913, diagnosis "Not insane, psychopathic constitution," and returned to the U.S.S. Southery Prison Ship. Upon his return there it was noted that he was suffering from a double benign, tertiary, malarial infection, which it was maintained he ...

— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck

... bright light of the Gospel has penetrated even to those last haunts of Paganism, and the fierce but not ungenerous race, with which we have been so long familiar, begin to change their natures under its benign influence. ...

— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee

... him that I had been mingling with it in this manner for some time past or that I repudiated the suggestion of its benign influence. I entered the tram meekly. As soon as we ...

— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke

... ruffles, vigorously wielding a fan, and complaining of the heat. (Indeed, as Annunziata had predicted, it had grown markedly warmer.) "I shall fly away, if this continues; I shall fly straight to town, and set my house in order for the season. When do you come?" she asked, smiling on him from her benign old eyes. ...

— My Friend Prospero • Henry Harland

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