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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.
s as z. Blessing; benediction. [Nearly antiquated.]

Definition 2024


benison

benison

English

Noun

benison (plural benisons)

  1. (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?

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