benison

Example Sentences

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Like Malik Solanka of Fury, who fled to America “to receive the benison of being Ellis Islanded,” the Goldens, too, have come seeking rebirth in the land of reinvention.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2017

"A Bit of a Tune" revisits Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and its crack-of-dawn encounter with the moon, finding it "a benison and a boon".

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012

The thing that distinguishes the fund that runs the place is its devotion not only to care but to something approaching benison.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frances Conroy's Mags is quite touching as she seeks a parental benison on her vocation.

From Time Magazine Archive

None of these mine; so I give him my benison, Turning reluctantly back to my work.

From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)