benignancy

Example Sentences

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Then her kindness to me, her looks, her smiles, her actions, are all intentional benignancy.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

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

He had a slight swagger, balanced by a certain benignancy.

From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.

Under their benignancy no loss could befall, no fate miscarry—for in his last thought he felt his vision opened, for the moment, to perceive a fine tracery of fate.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth

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