benison

Example Sentences

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Like Malik Solanka of Fury, who fled to America “to receive the benison of being Ellis Islanded,” the Goldens, too, have come seeking rebirth in the land of reinvention.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2017

"A Bit of a Tune" revisits Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and its crack-of-dawn encounter with the moon, finding it "a benison and a boon".

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012

Frances Conroy's Mags is quite touching as she seeks a parental benison on her vocation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nay, though that tie were all undone, For the life of none beneath the sun Would I seek a larger benison Than I seek for thine.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett