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Definition of Benignancy
1. Noun. The quality of being kind and gentle.
Generic synonyms: Good, Goodness
Attributes: Benign, Benignant
Derivative terms: Benign, Benign, Gracious, Gracious
Antonyms: Malignancy, Malignity
Definition of Benignancy
1. n. Benignant quality; kindliness.
Definition of Benignancy
1. Noun. benignity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Benignancy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benignancy
Literary usage of Benignancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text Book of Veterinary Medicine by James Law (1906)
"CYCLES OF POTENCY : PERIODS OF MALIGNANCY AND benignancy. Nothing is more certain
than the varying potency of a microbe and its toxins for a year or a ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"In spite of the benignancy of the giant-cell sarcoma, a resection or, in particularly
favorable cases, an enucleation, of the tumor is necessary as the ..."
3. Researches in pathological anatomy and clinical surgery by Joseph Sampson Gamgee, Sampson Gamgee (1856)
"No cancer-cells appearing upon its being submitted to careful microscopic
examination, the diagnosis of benignancy was held to be indisputably confirmed, ..."
4. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"... the more impossible it became to make the anatomical peculiarities of tumors
agree with the old views of malignancy and benignancy. ..."