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benison

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English benysoun, beneson, borrowed from Old French beneïson, from Latin benedictiō, benedictiōnem. First known use: 14th century. Doublet of benediction.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛnɪsən/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈbɛnɪzʌn/, /ˈbɛnɪzən/[1]

Noun edit

benison (plural benisons)

  1. (chiefly literary) A blessing; benediction.
    • 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, →ISBN, page 197:
      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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  1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 6.67, page 204.

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