benignity

• His mild benignity, the unbounded variety of his knowledge, the fast succeeding products of his imagination, the child-like simplicity with which he rises from the dryest and commonest theme into the wildest magnificence of thought pouring on the soul a stream of beauty and wisdom to mellow and enrich it for ever? —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• Scott received these gifts with benignity, and invited the friendly donor to breakfast next morning. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• They failed to read much, if anything at all, for Charlie's eyes were fixed in dreamy expressionless abstraction on the horizon, and Dick was gazing up into the clouds, with a look of intense benignity--suggesting that he was holding pleasant intercourse with any celestial creatures who might be resident there Without a word the whole crew bent to their oars, and resigned themselves to the inevitable. —  Charlie to the Rescue
• But the benignity was, as it were, blended with an air of unwonted wonder and exhilaration which consorted somewhat strangely with the wonted calm of the excellent gentleman's demeanour. —  The Dictator
• Trim Waitresses move about with a sweet but slightly mystic benignity, as conscious of conducting a dietetic mission to the dyspeptic. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892

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