The quality of being kind and gentle.
1 Thorpe continued to gaze at us, but the benignity had left him.
2 The great man smiled again, with a more intolerable benignity than before.
3 A smile of bland benignity played upon his passionless and reverend countenance.
4 Ishmael turned and smiled upon them with benignity , as he replied sweetly:
5 Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?
6 Ineffable delight, blended with a divine benignity , beamed over the hero's countenance.
7 But I solicit her benignity only in the cause of Clemenza.
8 Not so the Virgin; she is represented as all mercy, sympathy, and benignity .
9 With the return of happiness a gentle benignity flowed from the aged Queen.
10 If he hated anything-inhis universal benignity - Vauvenargues hated a rigid puritanism.
11 Experience had evinced the benignity of that being who gave it.
12 They offer their services with all the benignity and cordiality possible.
13 Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity .
14 The stranger stayed her speech with a look of great benignity .
15 She looks down with sad benignity upon the American military government.
16 And citizens saluted him with respect and he responded with benignity .
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