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
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
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 Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
It did not occur to him that solitude to the great may be worth more than the benignities of a valet.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird
