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 badly needed such a benison to retrieve its reputation after one of its first acts: it set the date for new elections in the Soviet zone at Oct.
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
Surging onward sweeps the wave, Serried columns of the brave, Banded ’neath the benison of Freedom’s godlike Washington!
From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
