Crossword clues for benignity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Benignity \Be*nig"ni*ty\, n. [OE. benignite, F. b['e]nignit['e], OF. b['e]nignet['e], fr. L. benignitas. See Benign.]
The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. ``Benignity of aspect.''
--Sir W. Scott.-
Mildness; gentleness.
The benignity or inclemency of the season.
--Spectator. Salubrity; wholesome quality.
--Wiseman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French benignité "goodness, kindness" (12c.), from Latin benignitatem (nominative benignitas), from benignus "kindly, kindhearted" (see benign).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being benign. 2 (context countable English) A benign act.
WordNet
n. the quality of being kind and gentle [syn: benignancy, graciousness] [ant: malignity, malignity]
a kind act [syn: kindness]
Wikipedia
Benignity (from Latin benignus "kind, good", itself deriving from bonus "good" and genus "origin") is any condition that is harmless in the long run. The opposite of benignity is malignity (or malignancy in Medical discourse).
In oncology (the study of cancer)- Benign tumor
- Benign intracranial hypertension
- Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Benign tertian malaria (malaria caused specifically by Plasmodium vivax or Plasmodium ovale)
Usage examples of "benignity".
But full of patient benignity, Discreet and prideless, aye honourable, And to her husband ever meek and stable.
I to speak, Imogen, who has always beheld me with an aspect of benignity, might be offended.
But the affability of the former took the name of benignity and condescension, and the affability of the latter was full of harmless gaiety, and a cheerful and unpretending spirit of society.
I see well, that ye have on my distress Compassion, my faire Canace, Of very womanly benignity That nature in your princples hath set.
To thee, and to the philosophical Strode, To vouchesafe, where need is, to correct, Of your benignities and zeales good.
But the information was pleasantly echoed about, as the ranks of the Servi parted and an old man, with a face full of benignity, came forward, holding the hand of a boy with blue eyes and light hair, who walked timidly with him to the pulpit on the left, where the older man encouraged the shrinking disputant to mount the stair.
But the affability of the former took the name of benignity and condescension, and the affability of the latter was full of harmless gaiety, and a cheerful and unpretending spirit of society.
I see well, that ye have on my distress Compassion, my faire Canace, Of very womanly benignity That nature in your princples hath set.
And eke for them that falsely be appair'd* *slandered Through wicked tongues, be it he or she: Or thus bid* God, for his benignity, *pray To grant them soon out of this world to pace,* *pass, go That be despaired of their love's grace.
The Chairman of the Board of the Benignity of the Compassionate Hand faced away from his desk, looking out the tall windows at the formal garden.
His descendant, in compliance with the requirements of a nicer age, had etherealized this rude benevolence into that broad benignity of smile, wherewith he shone like a noonday sun along the streets, or glowed like a household fire in the drawing-rooms of his private acquaintance.
Besides, I don't believe there's anything behind this but the Benignity wanting a ship to use invisibly in Familias space.
So now we've had a Benignity diplomatic ship giving orders to a Familias Station .
His whole bearing gave promise of his becoming one of those stoop-shouldered general practitioners who inspire so much faith among their patients by their towering benignity.
Heris still had to find out how Suiza had ended up in command, and how she'd destroyed a Benignity heavy cruiser.