Benignant

Word BENIGNANT
Character 9
Hyphenation be nig nant
Pronunciations /bəˈnɪɡnənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Benignant"

What do we mean by benignant?

Favorable; beneficial. adjective

Kind and gracious. adjective

Kind; gracious; favorable: as, a benignant sovereign.

Exerting a good, kindly, or softening influence; salutary; beneficial: as, the benignant influences of Christianity on the mind.

In medicine, not malignant; not dangerous: said of diseases.

Kind; gracious; favorable. adjective

Kind; gracious; favorable. adjective

Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects adjective

Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence adjective

Kind; gracious; favorable.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Benignant

The word "benignant" in example sentences

Some persons may still recall the benignant appearance of the late venerable Sir Archibald Macdonald, Lord Chief Baron of the Court of ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)

Whether it were fibrous or albuminous, "benignant" or "malignant," he was not able in his first diagnosis to determine. ❋ Unknown (1847)

She was on the opposite side of the fountain, and stood gazing on him with calmness, and with a kind of benignant curiosity: The garden, the kiosk, the falling waters, recalled the past, which flashed over his mind almost at the moment when he beheld the beautiful apparition. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

Finally if you do not die, your loving wife — who has not slept during the whole three weeks of your illness (a fact of which she will constantly remind you) — will fall ill in her turn, waste away, suffer much, and become even more incapable of any useful pursuit than she was before; while by the time that you have regained your normal state of health she will express to you her self-sacrificing affection only by shedding around you a kind of benignant dullness which involuntarily communicates itself both to yourself and to every one else in your vicinity. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Finally if you do not die, your loving wife -- who has not slept during the whole three weeks of your illness (a fact of which she will constantly remind you) -- will fall ill in her turn, waste away, suffer much, and become even more incapable of any useful pursuit than she was before; while by the time that you have regained your normal state of health she will express to you her self-sacrificing affection only by shedding around you a kind of benignant dullness which involuntarily communicates itself both to yourself and to every one else in your vicinity. ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)

At last Judge Blount looked across the table with benignant and fatherly pity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not alone were they nimble because of the westing, but a benignant sun was shining down and limbering their stiff bodies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When he tried to draw him out on questions of governmental authority, Young “merely looked around at me . . . as I have seen a benignant old cat look around to see which kitten was meddling with her tail.” ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

The burden of its supplication was that an ever -- merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory - ❋ Unknown (2009)

But his feelings towards these various characters were so mixed and complicated, that from time to time they showed entirely different from what they really were; and according to the interest which had been last exerted over his flexible mind, the King would change from an indulgent to a strict and even cruel father, from a confiding to a jealous brother, or from a benignant and bountiful to a grasping and encroaching sovereign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oh, do not reckon that old debt to my account today; but be, as thou hast ever been, kind, benignant, and easy to be entreated! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mr Arnott was a young man of unexceptionable character, and of a disposition mild, serious and benignant: his principles and blameless conduct obtained the universal esteem of the world, but his manners, which were rather too precise, joined to an uncommon gravity of countenance and demeanour, made his society rather permitted as a duty, than sought as a pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We have entire faith in the benignant influence of Truth, the sunlight of the moral world, and believe that slavery, like other worn-out systems, will melt gradually before it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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