benignity

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"Benignity," disposition to do good and show kindness.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.

Benignity beamed in his countenance, on which traces of suffering lingered, not wholly effaced by piety and resignation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

Benignity, kindness, keen humour, broad common sense and industry characterised my mother.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

Wherefore He determined that the numerations first emanated, from Benignity downward, should be destroyed and shattered by the excessive influx of His Light; His intention being to create of them the worlds of Evils.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

And, discarding the traditional division of the Evidences into Internal and External, he classified them according to their relation to the different Attributes of God, as manifesting His Power, Knowledge, Wisdom, Holiness, and Benignity.

From Principal Cairns by Cairns, John