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View definitions for benignant

benignant

adjective as in benevolent

adjective as in beneficial

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Example Sentences

This stubborn resistance lent all the more lustre to the piety of our benignant Rulers.

They certainly were attractive specimens of their race, and the Quaker miller who offered them had a most benignant countenance.

He had a loose hairy benignant face with a humorous but penetrating eye and the usual domelike brow.

With the sun was associated a supreme power that presided over the universe, benignant and eternal.

As she stood there in the doorway, lamp in hand, she looked like a benignant mother waiting to greet a returning child.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to benignant, such as: benign, altruistic, beneficent, compassionate, good, and goodhearted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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