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Benignant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Benignant has 2 senses
- benignant(a = adj.all) benign - pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air"
- benignant(s = adj.all) gracious - characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects; "our benignant king"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Benignant, a. [LL. benignans, p. pr. of benignare, from L. benignus. See Benign.].
Kind; gracious; favorable. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Benignant, adj.
1 kindly, esp. to inferiors.
2 salutary, beneficial.
3 Med. = BENIGN.
1 kindly, esp. to inferiors.
2 salutary, beneficial.
3 Med. = BENIGN.
Derivative
benignancy n. benignantly adv.
Etymology
f. BENIGN or L benignus, after malignant
ROGET THESAURUS
Benignant
Benevolence
N benevolence, Christian charity, God's love, God's grace, good will, philanthropy, unselfishness, good nature, good feeling, good wishes, kindness, kindliness, loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy, goodness of heart, warmth of heart, bonhomie, kind-heartedness, amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness, love, friendship, toleration, consideration, generosity, mercy, charitableness, bounty, almsgiving, good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good, acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant, altruist, benevolent, kind, kindly, well-meaning, amiable, obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored, warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted, merciful, charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant, bounteous, bountiful, good-natured, well-natured, spleenless, sympathizing, sympathetic, complaisant, well-meant, well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly, paternal, maternal, fraternal, sororal, friendly, with a good intention, with the best intentions, Int, Godspeed!, much good may it do!, act a charity sometimes, a tender heart, a will inflexible, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead, kind words are more than coronets, quando amigo pide no hay manana, the social smile, the sympathetic tear.
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