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Definition of Benigner
1. benign [adj] - See also: benign
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benigner
Literary usage of Benigner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christendom from the Standpoint of Italy: Proceedings of the Ninth General by Evangelical Alliance Conference, Robert Ainslie Redford (1891)
"The benigner features of Christian civilization are all engendered of that ...
But, although civilization to-day has caught a benigner atmosphere than the ..."
2. The Talisman by Walter Scott, Dwight Holbrook (1886)
"When, bending at thy shrine, We view the world with troubled eye, Where see
we 'neath the extended sky An empire notching thine ? If the benigner Power can ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1865)
"To the latter were annexed some miscellaneous poems of remarkable beauty, and
that merited a benigner fate. ..."
4. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Walter Scott, William James Rolfe (1898)
"... And from our fetters drove the spark Which was as lightning to reveal New
seasons, with the swifter play Of pulses, and benigner day; ..."
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