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
It can be both a barrier to success and a goad to accomplishment, a dislocating burden or an enriching benison.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not all businessmen regarded the ruling as a benison.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quite at Home August 30th Dear Poet: By now Mr. Denton has brought you my incoherent note of thanks for the benison of Wigglesworth.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Baldwin, Faith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
