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Webster 1913 Edition
Benison
Ben′i-son
,Noun.
[OE.
beneysun
, benesoun
, OF. beneï[GREEK]un
, beneïson
, fr. L. benedictio
, fr. benedicere
to bless; bene
(adv. of bonus
good) + dicere
to say. See Bounty
, and Diction
, and cf. Benediction
.] Blessing; beatitude; benediction.
Shak.
More precious than the
benison
of friends. Talfourd.
Webster 1828 Edition
Benison
BEN'ISON
,Noun.
Definition 2024
benison
benison
English
Noun
benison (plural benisons)
- (chiefly literary) A blessing; benediction.
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, page 197 (ISBN 0679405518)
- Poor old men! how could they be cordial with their sore consciences and shamed faces? how could they bid God bless him with hearty voices and a true benison, knowing, as they did, that their vile cabal had driven him from his happy home, and sent him in his old age to seek shelter under a strange roof-tree?
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, page 197 (ISBN 0679405518)
Antonyms
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blessing
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