benignities
- plural of benignity.
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
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 Bird, Richard
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 Townsend, George Alfred
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 MacDonald, George
