a. (UN-1 7.)

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1856.  Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1879), II. 76. A thoughtful … and not unbenignant face.

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1860.  Geo. Eliot, in Cross, Life (1885), II. 202. A really grand woman of fifty, with firm mouth and knitted brow, yet not unbenignant.

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