Noun, : benignities born of selfless devotion. From Dictionary.com.
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. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference
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 their want?. From Wordnik.com. [Adela Cathcart, Volume 3] Reference
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 time she wanted anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight] Reference
Too grateful we cannot be that he remained with us so long, that for more than a quarter of a century our city has had the light of that saintly presence, pouring its benignities into all eyes, shedding the dawn of worthier ambitions, some touch of nobler aspirations and better resolve into every heart. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871] Reference
To him, as to Cowper, the benignities of nature restored peace and calmness and hope ” sufficient to enable him to look back and gather wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [England's Antiphon]
Nothing can ever lift the picture till a subject nature appears, milder, truer, and closer to the type of God's own dear submissions in the cross of his Son; allowing us to bless our sight in the beholding of so many women by graces and benignities of self-forgetting love. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Review.] Reference
The fair benignities of old. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Of your benignities and zealës good. '. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
A cloudless heaven of bland benignities!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
And bland benignities, that breathe and burn. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
But, respecting these perpetual beneficences and benignities of the sacred, as opposed to the malignant, herbs, whose poisonous power is for the most part restrained in them, during their life, to their juices or dust, and not allowed sensibly to pollute the air, I should like the scholar to re-read pp. 251, 252 of vol. i., and then to consider with himself what a grotesquely warped and gnarled thing the modern scientific mind is, which fiercely busies itself in venomous chemistries that blast every leaf from the forests ten miles round; and yet cannot tell us, nor even think of telling us, nor does even one of its pupils think of asking it all the while, how a violet throws off her perfume!. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
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