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benignity

[bih-nig-ni-tee] / bɪˈnɪg nɪ ti /


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Notice the benignity in those examples, because — quite importantly — Thor does not become malicious.

From Salon May 1, 2019

He writes: “‘Carbon Ideologies’ largely neglects solar power, that being associated with decentralization and environmental benignity.

From New York Times Aug. 6, 2018

Third, the benignity and violation have to be simultaneously interpreted; otherwise, the joke will fall flat.

From Slate Apr. 25, 2018

Any hope of sneaking in some bold or challenging theological notion, or moral proposition, rests on the benignity of this initial encounter.

From The New Yorker May 13, 2016

He found the right sub-tropical benignity in Florida, but a particular series of engagements brought him back after a brief stay.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James

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

There is nothing like surface-mining to snatch the graces and beauties and benignities out of a paradise, and make an odious and repulsive spectacle of it.

From Following the Equator, Part 3 by Mark Twain

The balsams shed upon the air their perfumes, so pervasive, so tonic, that the lungs breathed health and all the benignities of nature.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree

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 Richard Bird




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