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

His rooms aren't closed, artificially lit boxes but part of a continuity between the inner and outer worlds, revealing the truth of both under the benison of natural light.

From Time Magazine Archive

But mostly it is the simple presence of a good man that grants her age's greatest benison, expanding rather than shrinking her humanity.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the ring, I would give thee my benison, but that I fear the blessing of so sinful a woman might do thee harm.

From Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Greenwood, Grace