noun

• A blessing.

  ‘the rewards and benisons of marriage’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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.’
  • ‘What is benison for Chelsea inevitably turns out to be a curse on their peers.’
  • ‘It was a glorious morning, the impartial sun shining over everything with a kind of benison.’

  Synonyms

  advantage, benefit, help, boon, good thing, godsend, favour, gift, convenience