benignity
noun
the quality of being benign; kindness.
benignities
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pluralof benignity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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One was a standard something-is-wrong-with-nature film that made monsters of benignities, the other a headlong black-comic attack on the nuclear threat.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are disturbing to look at, nightmarish, but most of them, oddly enough, are intended as lucky benignities.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The balsams shed upon the air their perfumes, so pervasive, so tonic, that the lungs breathed health and all the benignities of nature.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
There is nothing like surface-mining to snatch the graces and beauties and benignities out of a paradise, and make an odious and repulsive spectacle of it.
From Following the Equator, Part 3 by Mark Twain
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 England's Antiphon by George MacDonald
