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benignity|bɪˈnɪgnɪtɪ|
Forms: 4–6 benyngnite, -yte, -ete, benignite(e, -yte(e, benygnite(e, -yte, -ete, 5–7 benignitie, -itye, 7– benignity.
[ME. benignete, a. OF. benignité, ad. L. benignitāt-em; see -ity.]
1. Kindly feeling and its manifestation; kindness of disposition, or of manner. (Now attributed to superiors or those who are venerable.)
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 483 O God..Thow be my sheld, for thy benignite. 1382Wyclif Ps. li[i]. 5 Thou loouedist malice ouer benygnete; wickidnesse mor than to speke equite. c1480Ragman Roll 64 in Hazl. E.P.P. 72 But paciently your benygnyte Taketh all in gre. 1531Elyot Gov. ii. viii, Beneuolence, beneficence, and liberalitie, which maketh up the said principall vertue called benignitie or gentilnes. 1659Hammond On Ps. li. 1 Out of the riches of thy benignity. 1737Whiston Josephus' Antiq. vii. iii. §3 A peculiar benignity and affection which he had to the King. 1844Thirlwall Greece VIII. lxvi. 383 It [the senate] received him with the most gracious benignity. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. X. xxi. ix. 180 Such a fatherly benignity of look.
b. concr. A manifestation of kindness, a kindly or generous deed; a kindness, a favour bestowed.
c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. Pref. 6 The receiuer of that so liberall benignitye. 1590Swinburn Testaments 78 Many great and ample grants and benignities. a1711Ken Preparat. Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 74 The Benignities which shine, From Love divine. 1865Bushnell Vicar. Sacr. iii. vi. 337 They look to see it [the gospel] operate by mere benignities.
2. Of things:
a. (Astrol.) of a planet;
b. of weather, climate;
c. of medicine, disease. arch. See benign.
a.1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. xx. 130 That planet receives the dusky light we discern in its Sextile Aspect, from the Earth's benignity. 1722Pope Let. Wks. 1737 VI. 87 A star that..is all benignity, all gentle and beneficial influence.
b.a1640Jackson Creed xii. xiii. Wks. XII. 98 No benignity of native soil..can quicken..them. 1778Robertson Hist. Amer. II. vii. 333 The fertility of the soil corresponds with the benignity of the climate. 1814Wordsw. Excursion iv. 430 That benignity..that warms The mole.
c.1605Timme Quersit. i. xvi. 80 The mercurials doe exceede the antimonials in benignitie and sweetnesse. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xix. 765 The Humours are reduced to benignity. 1880Syd. Soc. Lex., Benignity, a term applied in recognition of the mildness and favourable progress of a disease; and also to a tumour which is not cancerous or malignant. |