benignancy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Mordecai's brilliant eyes, sunken in their large sockets, dwelt on the scene with the cherishing benignancy of a spirit already lifted into an aloofness which nullified only selfish requirements and left sympathy alive.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Although not great, the group of the Madonna and Child now over the central door of the Duomo has much charm and benignancy.
From A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
When I had ended he was looking at me with a benignancy that I had never seen before upon his face.
From Jacqueline of Golden River by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
He regarded Gaspard the smith with real benignancy.
From The Ten-foot Chain or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium by Achmed Abdullah
There was but one moon in all his heavens, a warm, friendly, almost mystic moon that rendered gentle and fine everything upon which it bestowed benignancy.
From Mixed Faces by Roy Norton
