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Plural of: The quality or state of being harmless.

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  • Noun, : benignities born of selfless devotion
  • Many of the people shook hands with me at the door, and the bald old gentleman led me to his wife and daughter, whose benignities were almost parental.
  • Do we grow old that, in our weakness and loss of physical self-assertion, we may learn the benignities of the universe -- only to be learned first through the feeling of...
  • Shuttleworth used to be when he came home for the holidays and she patted his head and uttered benignities -- and having thanked, apparently forgot him till the next...
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