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n. - A kind act; The quality of being kind and gentle.

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  • We owe justice to men, and graciousness and benignity to other creatures . . . there is a certain commerce and mutual obligation betwixt them and us.
  • Noun, : benignities born of selfless devotion
  • Both these advances of goodness may also be appropriately denominated "benignity," or
  • She developed benignity with him, and a kind of benignity which was almost playful — actually before tea was over including in some observation she made him the...
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