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 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

Touring shows draw small audiences in the hinterlands without the benison of Broadway approval, regional writers do not achieve status until they have run the gamut of Manhattan's cold-eyed critics.

From Time Magazine Archive

We do not come asking for gifts of profit or preferment for ourselves; for us the day for ban or benison has almost passed.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted