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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
benign /bɪˈnʌɪn/
▶adjective
- 1 genial and kindly.
- 2 favourable; not harmful.
■ Medicine (of a tumour) not malignant.
– derivatives
benignity /bɪˈnɪgnɪti/ noun,
benignly adverb.
benignity /bɪˈnɪgnɪti/ noun,
benignly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. benigne, from L. benignus, prob. from bene ‘well’ + -genus ‘-born’.
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