benison
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of benison
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French beneiçon, Middle French beneison < Latin benedictiōn- benediction
Example Sentences
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"By all the glories of the day / And the cool evening's benison / By that last sunset touch that lay / Upon the hills when day was done," it begins.
From BBC
"A Bit of a Tune" revisits Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and its crack-of-dawn encounter with the moon, finding it "a benison and a boon".
From The Guardian
As my good brother, the Abbot, is not here, thou must content thyself with my benison.
From Project Gutenberg
This is the second festival I have kept with those whom society has placed, not outside her pale, indeed, but outside the hearing of her benison.
From Project Gutenberg
I remember, however, more than distinctly all that happened the last evening I passed in that secluded house, to my sojourn in which I owe all the benisons bestowed upon my after artist life.
From Project Gutenberg
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