benignantly

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Plato would smile benignantly on your progress, from the particulars of something sketched in the real world to the transcendence of pure form.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2015

In Ms. Tushnet’s time, as in mine — I was four years ahead of her at Yale — the Party of the Right had a benignantly cultish quality.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2010

He looked up and, out of priestly habit, smiled benignantly at Milton, his white teeth appearing in the great bush of black beard.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In his usual calm and deliberate manner he produced the roll of manuscript saying benignantly, and in a gentle tone: "Do you recollect where I left off reading?"

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

Riding, and breakfast-parties, in the country, were frequent, and bright eyes, peeping out of pretty French bonnets, shone benignantly upon my young “pirates.”

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael