释义 |
benison /ˈbɛnɪz(ə)n / /ˈbɛnɪs(ə)n/noun literaryA blessing: the rewards and benisons of marriage...- He sees himself as the applied scientist who will bring the benisons of molecular biology to practical use.
- We know that Ms. Lavenham is on the road to wisdom, however, when James tells us she is ‘already half aware that, while good looks and prettiness were benisons, beauty was a dangerous and less amenable gift.’
- All of the time-consuming, head-cracking effort of an editor has relaxed and evened out, as though deftly pressed by some magic iron, and a benison has spread over the evening.
Origin Middle English: from Old French beneiçun, from Latin benedictio (see benediction). Rhymes denizen |