Both Uses of
benign
in
Jane Eyre
- Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word "Slattern," and bound it like a phylactery round Helen's large, mild, intelligent, and benign —looking forehead.†
p. 87.9 *
- Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.†
p. 372.7
Definition:
kindly, mild, or harmless
(In medicine, a tumor that is not life-threatening, is called benign.)
(In medicine, a tumor that is not life-threatening, is called benign.)