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
The thing that distinguishes the fund that runs the place is its devotion not only to care but to something approaching benison.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The Haymarket Abbé takes his meals without blessing himself, by way of saying grace, and fumbles about the heads of people who ask his benison, like an awkward phrenologist feeling for bumps.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
