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- noun The state or quality of being
benign .
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Examples
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They do not have the same trust in the benignness of government surveillance.
Geoffrey R. Stone: "Not a Suicide Pact": A Stone-Posner Conversation 2008
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He drew up his misshapen figure to its full height and beamed at the young girl with an expression of paternal benignness.
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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O God's inheritor, associate of Christ, servant of the Lord, holy (mentioned by name), in perfect accord with thine appellation was thy life, for together with grey hairs there shone forth wisdom, the serenity of thy countenance testified to the gentleness of thy soul and thy benignness was manifested in the calmness of thy speech.
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In thy soul thou didst have both understanding and humility, divine benignness, undoubting faith, hope and love that is unto God, approaching
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She, with no idea of benignness, might speak pardon's word to him, on a late autumn evening years hence, perhaps, or to his friends to-morrow, if he would considerately keep distant.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The specially womanly exultation of Emma Dunstane in her friend's noble attitude, seeing how their sex had been struck to the dust for a trifling error, easily to be overlooked by a manful lover, and had asserted its dignity in physical and moral splendour, in self-mastery and benignness, was unshared by Diana.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The specially womanly exultation of Emma Dunstane in her friend's noble attitude, seeing how their sex had been struck to the dust for a trifling error, easily to be overlooked by a manful lover, and had asserted its dignity in physical and moral splendour, in self-mastery and benignness, was unshared by Diana.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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She, with no idea of benignness, might speak pardon's word to him, on a late autumn evening years hence, perhaps, or to his friends to-morrow, if he would considerately keep distant.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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She, with no idea of benignness, might speak pardon's word to him, on a late autumn evening years hence, perhaps, or to his friends to-morrow, if he would considerately keep distant.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Mr. Hearn was benignness itself, but I saw that he was very observant.
A Day of Fate Edward Payson Roe 1863
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