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• a  pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
• s  characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects
  our benignant king

• Radio's most untrammeled critic last week put out a little book that was, like himself, benignant but free from bunk.
• For in one of the mission chambers a venerable, white-haired invalid, with wrinkled, bespectacled eyes and a broad, benignant face, lay on what seemed likely to be his death bed.
• Let it roll on in full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days.

• benign
• gracious

• malign