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

Hilda looked at him benignantly and encouragingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

"Oh, no, I guess not," answered the judge benignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Toasts] Reference

As this looked promising, Mr Tapley smiled benignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference

So she smiled upon him, and listened benignantly to his tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference

"You were always a good boy," replied his friend, benignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference

And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL] Reference

He panted for breath, and looked benignantly round upon his friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference

Miss Ainley, and smiling benignantly: his approbation was won at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

"Do not distress yourself, my dear Miss Kendall," she said, benignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at School] Reference

Mr. Figgs sat on a stone while they rested and smiled benignantly at them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

The guard stopped and pulled away at his cheroot, regarding Tom benignantly the while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown's Schooldays]

Remember how benignantly Horwendil fostered you, how justly he dealt with you, how kindly he loved you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

Even the little old lady who sat directly across from him and smiled at him benignantly, didn't seem quite real.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder Can Be Fun]

He was explaining to her, benignantly; she was pointing, her finger carefully held off from the costly mechanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

SQUIRE OF MALWOOD benignantly affected to regard it as a little joke with which Ministers designed to vary a dull Session.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892] Reference

Now, he was not one to smile benignantly at such irregularities and then throw the burden of correcting them on his pastor.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

‘How is Rachel? how is your sister, Captain Lake, have you seen her to-day?’ asked old Lady Chelford, rather benignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wylder's Hand] Reference

He looked at them sweetly and benignantly, and it seemed to them that they received a message from his tremendous certitude of soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SEED OF McCOY] Reference

‘That’s what I say,’ retorted the collector, patting him benignantly on the side of the head with his umbrella; ‘just what I say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference

Bishop Helmsdale looked benignantly around the apartment, and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two on a Tower] Reference

Jo Bumpus smiled benignantly, and said that he "was glad to hear it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader] Reference

From a white heaven the moon still shone benignantly down, mocking him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men and a Maid] Reference

He was beaming very benignantly down upon the little blond stenographer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma McChesney and Co.] Reference

I reply to these benignantly and courteously, but undertake nothing, promise nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altar Fire] Reference

Thus benignantly dismissed, we carried off my Aunt Kezia as if she had been a casket of jewels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow] Reference

He merely removed his glasses, wiped them reflectively, and nodded to his colleague benignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Together] Reference

Boone's mind, Gorman called, and found his friend rubbing his hands, and smiling benignantly in the back room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting the Flames] Reference

Mac-Sycophant for interfering openly and boldly in favour of any cause on which the sun does not shine benignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

Mrs. Hopkins looked benignantly upon the more than middle-aged tabby, slumbering as if she had never known an enemy, and turned smiling to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian Angel] Reference