benignity
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It was as though, feeling my hand, he felt my benignity.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019
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
He accepted the anxious attentions of his agonized parents with ineffable sweetness, regarding them with a thoughtful benignity, not wholly restraining his feelings, nor yet allowing them a free indulgence.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
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
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
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
To him, as to Cowper, the benignities of nature restored peace and calmness and hope—sufficient to enable him to look back and gather wisdom.
From England's Antiphon by George MacDonald
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