BENIGNANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does benignantly mean? 

• BENIGNANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb BENIGNANTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a benign manner

  Familiarity information: BENIGNANTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENIGNANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a benign manner

Synonyms:

benignantly; benignly

Context example:

this drug is benignly soporific

Pertainym:

benignant (pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence)

 Context examples 

There are the names, in the sweet old visionary connexion, David Copperfield and Dora Spenlow; and there, in the corner, is that Parental Institution, the Stamp Office, which is so benignantly interested in the various transactions of human life, looking down upon our Union; and there is the Archbishop of Canterbury invoking a blessing on us in print, and doing it as cheap as could possibly be expected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then Miss Mills benignantly dismissed me, saying, Go back to Dora! and I went; and Dora leaned out of the carriage to talk to me, and we talked all the rest of the way; and I rode my gallant grey so close to the wheel that I grazed his near fore leg against it, and took the bark off, as his owner told me, to the tune of three pun' sivin'—which I paid, and thought extremely cheap for so much joy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With these accompaniments we were left alone to finish the evening, my aunt sitting opposite to me drinking her wine and water; soaking her strips of toast in it, one by one, before eating them; and looking benignantly on me, from among the borders of her nightcap.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)