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benison
[ ben-uh-zuhn, -suhn ]
benison
/ ˈbɛnɪzən; -sən /
noun
- archaic.a blessing, esp a spoken one
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Word History and Origins
Origin of benison1
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Example Sentences
I wouldn't have missed Dot, doing the honours in her wedding-gown, my benison on her bright face!
By now Mr. Denton has brought you my incoherent note of thanks for the benison of Wigglesworth.
His memory of his own mother, the sweet, patient sufferer of Bonn, was to him like a benison his whole life long.
Let them go; but surely it is too much to expect us to pronounce a benison upon their dead and departed dry bones.
And she looked down at his beautiful bent head and laid her other hand on it in benison.
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