With her benignant manner, she soon won the hearts of the jury. From LearnThat.org.
Our benignant king. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a benignant sovereign. ,the benignant authority of the new president. From Dictionary.com.
Whether it were fibrous or albuminous, "benignant" or "malignant," he was not able in his first diagnosis to determine. From Wordnik.com. [Danger] Reference
But the crown of the benignant day was yet to come. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
Persis cast a benignant gaze in the speaker's direction. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
I have no doubt that some benignant power had precipitated. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
'Your cousin's better, Miss Dora,' said the benignant Hayes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Out of this benignant sameness what glorious fruits are produced!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
These forces of wind and sun and rain might be brutal or benignant. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Welcome; and when they replied, he smiled with benignant expression. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Rather, perhaps, it was their sadness that made seem sinister a spell actually benignant. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Philips saw his eyes this time, no longer stern and wrathful, but benignant and indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
The Queen, seeing she had alarmed us, glided with her benignant grace into another subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Providence, to the benignant personal character and the popular policy of Sir Henry Lawrence. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
I am quite sure that the peers who observed him surveying them did not think he was benignant. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
Great Stone Face, with the same cheer, combined with the same solemnity, in its benignant aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
The builders there and elsewhere have many adversaries; but the benignant Lamb shall overcome them. From Wordnik.com. [Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission] Reference
However, he knew the facts better than anybody else, and Quiroga's attitude at Toledo was benignant. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
She wished him "good morning," in her own bright way; and he responded with his usual benignant smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
Behind the benignant evasiveness of the doctors he seemed to discern a fact, like a thunderbolt withheld. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Pronounce: dissuading; feuds; wounds; chalcedony; plaiting; bade; spacious; benignant; mystic; imperious. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
Catholics of Cincinnati in having at their head that gentle, benignant, and patriotic man, Archbishop Purcell. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
In person he was under the middle height; his countenance was open and benignant, with a well developed forehead. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
It cannot, however, be denied, that in this instance, Calvin acted contrary to the benignant spirit of the gospel. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The benignant mountains westward kindly surveyed the happy pair, and the sun seemed created to warm and cheer them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
In his death, he manifested the strength of his religious faith, and resigned his spirit with a benignant composure. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Napier's complacent one, Jefferson's benignant one, and Lady Napier's loving one, seemed all like pictures of the dead. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Râmâyanam the moon is a good fairy, who in giving light in the night assumes a benignant aspect and succours the dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
All at once he turned his face toward the window where I stood, and, just as if he had seen me, smiled his benignant smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
These are cherubs rioting in health, smiling old men, benignant matrons, radiant maidens, all feasting on nectar and ambrosia. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
Thou subjectest sons to their parents in a kind of free servitude, and settest parents over their sons in a benignant rule. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference
"Angelus" rang just afterwards, it was as if some benignant fairy had waved her wand over the land to hold it at its sweetest moment. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
He smiles -- always a bad sign with him, as the natural expression of his truly benignant mood is a fierce little terrier-like frown. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
The rule of the Governors-General of the Islands was, upon the whole, benignant with respect to the natives who manifested submission. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
They calmed her with benignant smiles, then informed her that fear was as potent in bringing about disaster as optimism was in preventing it. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The first thing I saw was the Lord Chancellor himself, -- Lord Eldon, -- the mildest, wisest, slowest, and most benignant of men, -- milder than. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
But all these, if not human, are hardly to be regarded as divine; they are mostly noxious, and, even if benignant, do not attain the rank of gods. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Art in Ancient Greece] Reference
Green, however, said nothing further, taking up her tools and going on with her work with a complacent and benignant smile in her little pink mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
She was encouraged by the mild and benignant expression on the old man's face, which had been more often fierce, as she remembered it through the years. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
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