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
It can be both a barrier to success and a goad to accomplishment, a dislocating burden or an enriching benison.
From Time Magazine Archive
It badly needed such a benison to retrieve its reputation after one of its first acts: it set the date for new elections in the Soviet zone at Oct.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not that some far age may say,— ‘God’s benison on her, since she was the friend Of Michael Angelo!’
From Italy, the Magic Land by Whiting, Lilian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
