Definitionadj. pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
Last update: July 4, 2015
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Here was food in exhaustless plenty; and here was weather benignant enough for any reasonable needs. [Please select]
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There was a light as of heaven in those benignant eyes. [adjective]
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She bestowed on the youth a benignant smile, and vanished. [Please select]
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Davis was quite benignant in the afternoon, also unusually nervous. [Please select]
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His character developed unanticipated strength on the practical side; he became a vigorous employer of labour, an active planter, above all a powerful and benignant island chieftain. [adjective]
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C. Ranyard, who says, "He was the kindliest, as well as the most learned of men - benignant to every one who approached him, never forgetting the claims which weakness has on strength." [adjective]
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She also beheld his face--calm, pitiful, and of exceeding beauty, the large eyes tender with benignant purpose. [adjective]
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Nay, looking at that calm, benignant countenance, the very idea of war and conquest, and lust of dominion, smote him like a profanation. [adjective]
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, made obeisance unperceived, mindful of lords deputies whose hands benignant had held of yore rich advowsons. [adjective]
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"My son," said Balthasar, in his benignant way, "the mission is yet a purpose in the bosom of God." [adjective]
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As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines. [adjective]
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