benison
- n a spoken blessing
- The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies.
- The gay connection, soldered by Muriel and Priscilla, make ABBA seem like a benison for the emotionally vulnerable cartoon critters chirping outside an invalids .
- Incarnating amiability with an undercoat of evil can be a benison to an actor.