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発音

• IPA: /ˈbɛnɪsən/
• (obsolete) IPA: /ˈbɛnɪzʌn/, /ˈbɛnɪzən/
• 韻: -ɛnɪsən

名詞

benison (plural benisons)

1. (chiefly literary) A blessing; benediction.
   • 1847 September 11, William J. Thoms, “The Folk-lore of Shakespeare”, in The Athenaeum, London, page 958, column 1:

     That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white,
     “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight”
     That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small,
     “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”

   • 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, →ISBN, page 197:

     Poor old men! how could they be cordial with their sore consciences and shamed faces? how could they bid God bless him with hearty voices and a true benison, knowing, as they did, that their vile cabal had driven him from his happy home, and sent him in his old age to seek shelter under a strange roof-tree?

反意語

• malison

参照

アナグラム

• Bonines, bonnies