Adjective : a benignant sovereign. ,the benignant authority of the new president.    From Dictionary.com. 

Beethoven simpered above it in ineffable benignancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference

Bishop of Frejus looked upon me with a most cool sort of benignancy; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devereux — Complete] Reference

Then her kindness to me, her looks, her smiles, her actions, are all intentional benignancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

When I had ended he was looking at me with a benignancy that I had never seen before upon his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacqueline of Golden River] Reference

The attitude of the cook was as that of a son to a father: the benignancy of Mr. Lister beautiful to behold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains All and Others] Reference

The face which had not lost all its underlying benignancy even when it looked its coldest, had now become settled and hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Hollow] Reference

And moreover, anticipating their next interview, he could, in fancy, plainly hear his Aunt Clara saying, with hopeless, longing benignancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

She rose, a great soft glowing vision of benignancy, and held out her hand, now gloveless, her pretty little smooth plump right hand, with its twinkling rings.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friend Prospero] Reference

His brow under his snow-white hair was lofty and calm; his eyes were clear and kindly; his mouth expressed both firmness and gentleness; his whole face was benignancy itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Keith] Reference

It was provokingly brilliant and warm; indeed I must, in justice to the Weather Office, allow, that its benignancy has scarcely been interrupted, since I ceased to care whether skies were foul or fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border and Bastille] Reference

Mordecai's brilliant eyes, sunken in their large sockets, dwelt on the scene with the cherishing benignancy of a spirit already lifted into an aloofness which nullified only selfish requirements and left sympathy alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Deronda] Reference

He showed stronger mettle than had been allowed him; bore a manlier part than was commonly ascribed to the slovenly slipshod habiliments and the aspects in which benignancy and vacillation seemed to struggle for the ascendancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marse Henry : an autobiography,] Reference

The sun was almost visible, and a tenderness now and then touched the air, and no one who is at all responsive to weather conditions could fail to be a little elated and believe once more not only in a future of sorts but also in a lurking benignancy somewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions] Reference

"It was thoughtful in Heathcote, and like his usual kindness, to devise this well-meant caution!" said Ruth, across whose countenance a smile so radiant passed, that it imparted the expression which is believed to characterize the peculiar benignancy of angels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

Wherein his Honour did warmly agree, assuring me with fatherly benignancy of the pleasure with which he would hear of my appointment to be Head of a District somewhere on the Punjab frontier, and mentioning how a certain native Bengali gentleman of his acquaintance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference

She bore a striking resemblance to him and had inherited his handsome features a thousandfold, albeit her eyes were different, being large, brown, and wide apart; from them beamed a sweetness, a benignancy, and tenderness that, to the impressionable Farrel, bespoke mental as well as physical beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pride of Palomar] Reference

Her face was radiant with those feelings which had so recently changed from despair to delight -- a condition that is ever most propitious to beauty; and charms that always appeared feminine and soft, now seemed elevated to a bright benignancy that might best be likened to our fancied images of angels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Tier] Reference

This benignancy of feature, unusual rather in its strength than in its existence, might have been heightened by the fact that his spirit had just wrought in prayer, as was usual, in the circle of his children and dependants, ere they left those retired parts of the building where they had found rest and security during the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

Looking vaguely in the direction indicated, for I could not conceive what he meant and thought that the excitement must have made him mad, I perceived a venerable old man with a long white beard and clothed in a flowing garment, also white, who reminded me of Father Christmas at a child's party, walking towards us and radiating benignancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and Allan] Reference

A manlier part than was commonly ascribed to the slovenly slipshod habiliments and the aspects in which benignancy and vacillation seemed to struggle for the ascendancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography] Reference

Wild, erratic persons have a half-crazed expression of eye, while calmness, benignancy, intelligence, purity, sweetness, love, lasciviousness, anger, and all the other mental affections, express themselves quite as distinctly by the eye as voice, or any other mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference