benignant

adj

1. (archaic)Kind; gracious; favorable.

   “Here Nature appears in her richest attire, and Art, dressed with the modestest simplicity, attends her benignant mistress.”

   “And in the silence of the midnight trance, In snowy robe she comes to cheer my sight; So holy, so benignant is her glance, Her brow so placid,—and her eye so bright,...”

   “The most idiotic medicaster, when he had named, or, as they term it, diagnosticated a typhoid fever, found himself upon a level with the medical celebrities of the epoch. […] If the patient died, that was perfectly simple: he had a typhoid fever to which he was inevitably doomed to succumb! If he recovered, what a noble triumph for the medicaster, even when he had perhaps arbitrarily imposed the name of typhoid upon a simple and benignant fever, as is constantly done!”

   “General Peckem roused himself after a moment with an unctuous and benignant smile.”