We owe justice to men, and graciousness and benignity to other creatures . . . there is a certain commerce and mutual obligation betwixt them and us.    From LearnThat.org.  [Michel Montaigne, Source: Essais]

Noun, : benignities born of selfless devotion.    From Dictionary.com. 

Both these advances of goodness may also be appropriately denominated "benignity," or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference

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 words 'My dear boy.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Different Stripe:] Reference

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 words "My dear boy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted April] Reference

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 words "My dear boy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted April] Reference

His trident, and smiles with most friendly benignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 22, 1891] Reference

Judith waved her aside with a gesture of calm benignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference

The man's expression changed to one of cheerfulness and benignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference

'That will be a consolation to you,' rejoined the judge, with unusual benignity, and with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference

Navy, having succeeded Sir Hugh Palliser in April 1775, received him with his accustomed benignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference

He has an appearance of benignity, and is really kindhearted, according to what they say who know him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference

France, and James Buchanan, according to the merciful divine benignity President of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Enemies of True Republicanism] Reference

And in that phrase of her lifetime, "lovely Mary Cathcart," is a whole biography of benignity and beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference

His mode of utterance was singularly pleasing, and his dispositions were pervaded by a generous benignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

The children who fail to receive the benignity of death grow up here and exist and suffer in this dreadful life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 4, April, 1896] Reference

Father's care and benignity, he appears to us infinitely lovely and attractive as well as infinitely great and good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

So it came about that this blemish which found its way into the gift marred the whole sweetness of its first benignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

When benignity and gentleness reign in our breasts, every person and every occurrence are beheld in the most favorable light.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference

The face is oval, similar to that of a youthful matron of ancient Rome, and carrying always the expression of a calm benignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

In splendour of her person she resembled a flame of fire, though in benignity and loveliness she resembled a spotless digit of the moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

Three days after, in another letter to Earl Spencer, the benignity of his excellent heart pleads powerfully for a son of the late Captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference

For whatever might fail, her work was left, that grim consoler, who, masking benignity by a scowl, has kept ten million hearts from breaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

We are accustomed in our own religious art to the attempt to express divinity in the form of a mature man of unspeakable majesty and benignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Art in Ancient Greece] Reference

According to their ideal, beauty must be the expression of attractive qualities within -- such as cheerfulness, benignity, contentment, and love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

He was somewhat under the middle height, but was well formed and slightly athletic, and his fresh-coloured complexion beamed a generous benignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

It was, that they rejoiced and rendered thanks for the benignity of their young prince; but that they could not avail themselves of the pardon offered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

One would hardly have supposed, while admiring his pleasing features, which expressed so much benignity, that when on the throne of Koollum he had been such.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Peep into Toorkisthhan] Reference

If there be but the least spark of pure benignity, it is a fire will spread through all and fill the breast; for Good makes good, and what it is I must become.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference

His heart was full of the milk of human kindness, and he carried conviction to his hearers, not more by the strength of his logic than the benignity of his address.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference

The substance of Chaucer's poetry, his view of things and his criticism of life, has largeness, freedom, shrewdness, benignity; but it has not this high seriousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

The years had dealt kindly with the Misses Spencer and as they looked at each other, with thoughtful benignity, their faces were like two studies in silver and pink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference

Dr. Pulteney has closed a very liberal memoir of him, by inserting Dr. Garthshore's testimony to the humane feeling, the social politeness, and benignity of Sir William.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference

They shed tears over the patriarchal benignity of this venerable and beautiful provision of Divine Providence for the spiritual training of our African fellow-creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

The expression of countenance, too, was benignity itself, -- just such as Titian would have been delighted with, -- calm, clear, passionless, without a prevailing characteristic of any strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference