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Meanings of benignity in English

Catalan
benignitat

The quality of being kind and gentle.

      benignitat
      Portuguese
      bondade
      Catalan
      amabilitat
      Spanish
      bondad

      A kind act.

            bondade
            Usage of benignity in English
            1
            Thorpe continued to gaze at us, but the benignity had left him.
            Shadowland
            2
            The great man smiled again, with a more intolerable benignity than before.
            The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
            3
            A smile of bland benignity played upon his passionless and reverend countenance.
            The Infernal Marriage
            4
            Ishmael turned and smiled upon them with benignity, as he replied sweetly:
            Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
            5
            Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?
            The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament
            6
            Ineffable delight, blended with a divine benignity, beamed over the hero's countenance.
            The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, V...
            7
            But I solicit her benignity only in the cause of Clemenza.
            Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
            8
            Not so the Virgin; she is represented as all mercy, sympathy, and benignity.
            Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts
            9
            With the return of happiness a gentle benignity flowed from the aged Queen.
            Queen Victoria
            10
            If he hated anything-inhis universal benignity-Vauvenargueshated a rigid puritanism.
            Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
            11
            Experience had evinced the benignity of that being who gave it.
            Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
            12
            They offer their services with all the benignity and cordiality possible.
            Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
            13
            Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity.
            The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights ...
            14
            The stranger stayed her speech with a look of great benignity.
            Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
            15
            She looks down with sad benignity upon the American military government.
            The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
            16
            And citizens saluted him with respect and he responded with benignity.
            The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
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            Translations for benignity
            Spanish
            bondad
            Benignity through the time
            Benignity across language varieties
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