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

But mostly it is the simple presence of a good man that grants her age's greatest benison, expanding rather than shrinking her humanity.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Surging onward sweeps the wave, Serried columns of the brave, Banded ’neath the benison of Freedom’s godlike Washington!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various