benignant
/bəˈnɪɡnənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.05 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Here Nature appears in her richest attire, and Art, dressed with the modestest simplicity, attends her benignant mistress."
- "And in the silence of the midnight trance, In snowy robe she comes to cheer my sight; So holy, so benignant is her glance, Her brow so placid,—and her eye so bright,..."
- "The most idiotic medicaster, when he had named, or, as they term it, diagnosticated a typhoid fever, found himself upon a level with the medical celebrities of the epoch. […] If the patient died, that was perfectly simple: he had a typhoid fever to which he was inevitably doomed to succumb! If he recovered, what a noble triumph for the medicaster, even when he had perhaps arbitrarily imposed the name of typhoid upon a simple and benignant fever, as is constantly done!"
- "General Peckem roused himself after a moment with an unctuous and benignant smile."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bəˈnɪɡnənt/
- British English: /bəˈnɪɡnənt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more benignant (comparative)
most benignant (superlative)