benignancy

Example Sentences

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Opening the door of the apartment in which Clelia was anxiously awaiting her mother's return, he entered with a false benignancy upon his face.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Garibaldi, Giuseppe

She gazed upon the two silent men with an expression that united benignancy with profound inquietude and sadness.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold

The beauty of the morning, its stillness, its serenity, its odorous opulence, struck upon my senses with a kind of ironic benignancy, as if to say, "Why agonize over so small a thing?"

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

The venerable holy men on either side have all Bellini's suave benignancy and incapacity for sin: celestial grandfathers.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry

She took his great toil-worn hand, and her hot tears fell on it, for his gentleness, his benignancy, had touched her deeply.

From The Valley of the Giants by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)