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Definition of Benignities
1. benignity [n] - See also: benignity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benignities
Literary usage of Benignities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kabbala Denudata, the Kabbalah Unveiled, Containing the Following Books of by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1912)
"We have learned that all the lights which shine from the Most Holy Ancient One
are called the former benignities, because all those lights are the ..."
2. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys by Charles F Horne (1917)
"... and herein existeth the Benignity from the other Benignities). And Benignity
is from those on the right, but Severity from those on the left. 981. ..."
3. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"And that Benignity comprehendeth in itself five Benignities (otherwise, and herein
existeth the Benignity from the other Benignities). ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"... and discourses genially and wisely upon the whole domestic life of woman in
its varied rights and wrongs, benignities and adversities. ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"... together with palm trees, and other arboreal benignities. There is a beauty
in the fancy, a reverence for palm and cocoa in the grateful superstition. ..."
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