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

Communities, counties and corporations are hard at work all over the U.S. spreading such plans, and the recent benison of the A.M.A. is certain to allay the objections of many balky doctors.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 16, he decided to spend "a life giving to others the benison which nature gave to me."

From Time Magazine Archive

We do not come asking for gifts of profit or preferment for ourselves; for us the day for ban or benison has almost passed.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted