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benison
\BEN-uh-suhn; -zuhn\ , noun;1.
Blessing; benediction.
Quotes:
In the beginning, Gibran's small estate was worth some $50,000, benison enough for a village of ten thousand souls.
-- Stefan Kanfer, "But is it not strange that elephants will yield -- and that The Prophet is still popular?",New York Times, June 25, 1972
Yet to be with him was a benison, a curiously exhilarating and anarchic experience, as the lightning celerity of his thought processes took you on a kind of helter-skelter ride of surreal non-sequiturs, sudden accesses of emotion and ribald asides, made all the more bizarre for being uttered in those honeyed tones by the impeccably elegant gent before you.
-- Simon Callow, "A life full of frolics", The Guardian, May 19, 2001
Origin:
Benison comes from Old French beneison, from Latin benedictio, from benedicere, "to bless," from bene, "well" + dicere, "to say."
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So a friend sent me this email about this... Well read it! HAHAHA
I knew a person that was so
stupid that.......
she called me to get my phone number.
She spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice box because it said 'concentrate.'
she tried to put M&M's in alphabetical order..
she sent me a fax with a stamp on it.
she tried to drown a fish.
she thought a quarterback was a refund....
she got locked in a grocery store and starved to death...
she tripped over a cordless phone.
she took a ruler to bed to see how long she slept.
she asked for a price check at the Dollar Store.
she studied for a blood test..
she thought Meow Mix was a CD for cats...
when she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.
when she missed the 44 bus, she took the 22 bus twice instead..
when she took you to the airport and saw a sign that said 'Airport Left' she turned around and went home
stupid that.......
she called me to get my phone number.
She spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice box because it said 'concentrate.'
she tried to put M&M's in alphabetical order..
she sent me a fax with a stamp on it.
she tried to drown a fish.
she thought a quarterback was a refund....
she got locked in a grocery store and starved to death...
she tripped over a cordless phone.
she took a ruler to bed to see how long she slept.
she asked for a price check at the Dollar Store.
she studied for a blood test..
she thought Meow Mix was a CD for cats...
when she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.
when she missed the 44 bus, she took the 22 bus twice instead..
when she took you to the airport and saw a sign that said 'Airport Left' she turned around and went home
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