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Nov 22, 2024

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with Anu Garg

benison

PRONUNCIATION:

(BEN-uh-zuhn/suhn)

MEANING:

noun: A blessing; a benediction.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French beneison, from Latin benedicere (to bless), from bene (well) + dicere (to say). Earliest documented use: 1300.

USAGE:

“He had much to regret, and old age was more of a burden than a benison.”
Aline Templeton; Lamb to the Slaughter; HarperCollins; 2014.

See more usage examples of benison in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (22 Nov 1819-1880)

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