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Word: benedicton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...with well-simulated interest while I, dripping with perspiration like a municipal sprinkler, read on and on, and while in the semi-darkness my fellow students heaved oc-occasional gusty sights of weariness; but one's reward came with a few benign words of approval which seemed an Olympian benedicton...

Author: By Douglas Bush and Professor OF English, S | Title: BUSH RECALLS AWE AND GRATITUDE AROUSED BY SCHOLAR'S MAJESTY | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

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