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ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects
    our benignant king
  2. pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
    the benign sky
    a benign smile
    the benign influence of pure air

How To Use benignant In A Sentence

  • Upon this occasion I particularly lamented that he had not that warmth of friendship for his brilliant pupil, which we may suppose would have had a benignant effect on both.
  • a philanthropical institution, or an educational enterprise, or a network of agencies and "instrumentalities" to bring to bear on society at large certain ameliorating influences or benignant reforms. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
  • Some persons may still recall the benignant appearance of the late venerable Sir Archibald Macdonald, Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
  • It means it is the same whether healthy, benignant or malignant cells are concerned, the only important thing is how great the actual growth rate is.
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  • He seems to have known much about affections of the gums and recognizes a benignant and malignant epulis. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
  • In benignant and gracious conduct he was to be as a "luminary" (_phôstêr_), moving calm and bright in the dark hemisphere of the world. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
  • The costume of the East certainly does not exaggerate the fatal progress of time; if a figure becomes too portly, the flowing robe conceals the incumbrance which is aggravated by a western dress; he, too, who wears a turban has little dread of grey hairs; a grizzly beard indeed has few charms, but whether it were the lenity of time or the skill of his barber in those arts in which Asia is as experienced as Europe, the beard of the master of the divan became the rest of his appearance, and flowed to his waist in rich dark curls, lending additional dignity to a countenance of which the expression was at the same time grand and benignant. Tancred Or, The New Crusade
  • Whether it were fibrous or albuminous, "benignant" or "malignant," he was not able in his first diagnosis to determine. Danger
  • Hope manage system offers the equipment project inspect to building our country to consult benignantly.
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