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

Not all businessmen regarded the ruling as a benison.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

That light it was a benison; It seemed a holy boon, As when behind a wrack of cloud Shineth the summer moon.

From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee