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Benignancy

noun
1.
The quality of being kind and gentle.  Synonyms: benignity, graciousness.  Antonyms: malignity, malignancy.






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"Benignancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... visible, and a tenderness now and then touched the air, and no one who is at all responsive to weather conditions could fail to be a little elated and believe once more not only in a future of sorts but also in a lurking benignancy somewhere. Stimulated myself in this way, even although I was approaching a rehearsal of a revue, I came suddenly in the King's Road upon that disused burial-ground opposite the Six Bells, and was aware that, sitting ...
— A Boswell of Baghdad - With Diversions • E. V. Lucas

... interview, he could, in fancy, plainly hear his Aunt Clara saying, with hopeless, longing benignancy: "Oh, Edwin, how I do wish I could have seen you in ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett

... must some day be broken. The sun was almost visible, and a tenderness now and then touched the air, and no one who is at all responsive to weather conditions could fail to be a little elated and believe once more not only in a future of sorts but also in a lurking benignancy somewhere. Stimulated myself in this way, even although I was approaching a rehearsal of a revue, I came suddenly in the King's Road upon that disused burial-ground opposite the Six Bells, and was aware that, sitting there on seats facing the road, in white aprons and caps, with ...
— A Boswell of Baghdad - With Diversions • E. V. Lucas

... a great soft glowing vision of benignancy, and held out her hand, now gloveless, her pretty little smooth plump right ...
— My Friend Prospero • Henry Harland

... Bathed in the benignancy of bland Indian summer, Cap'n Sproul and his friend Hiram Look surveyed these arrivals from the porch of the ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day



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