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

Touring shows draw small audiences in the hinterlands without the benison of Broadway approval, regional writers do not achieve status until they have run the gamut of Manhattan's cold-eyed critics.

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

"Bare a benison and victory," said the draoidheacht steed, "for you are a youth that will win and prosper."

From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)