BENISON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does benison mean? 

• BENISON (noun)
  The noun BENISON has 1 sense:

1. a spoken blessing

  Familiarity information: BENISON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENISON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A spoken blessing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("benison" is a kind of...):

benediction; blessing (a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection)

 Context examples 

“God's benison upon thy bounty!” cried the stranger.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

God's benison on the man who first turned his hand to the making of war!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now blow out the trumpets, and may God's benison be with the honest men!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A contrite heart and ten nobles to holy mother Church may stave off perdition; but he hath a pardon of the first degree, with a twenty-five livre benison, so that I doubt if he will so much as feel a twinge of purgatory.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)