benison
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
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- 7
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Definition of benison
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(literary)A blessing; benediction.
“That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white, “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight” That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small, “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!””
“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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Etymology
From Middle English benysoun, beneson, borrowed from Old French beneïson, from Latin benedictiō, benedictiōnem. First known use: 14th century. Doublet of benediction.
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