She took his great toil-worn hand, and her hot tears fell on it, for his gentleness, his benignancy, had touched her deeply.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne
At the stations there were officers eating "Ztchee" soup and veal and drinking glasses of weak tea, there were endless mountains of hot meat pies; the ikons in the restaurants looked down with benignancy and indifference upon the food and the soldiers and beyond the station the light green trees blowing in the little wind; the choruses of the soldiers came from their trains as though it were the very voice of Spring itself.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole
Then her kindness to me, her looks, her smiles, her actions, are all intentional benignancy.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft