"benigne" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more benigne",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most benigne",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:",
          "text": "And further I imagined and sayd, Alasse what Judge is he that is so gentle or benigne, that will thinke that I am unguilty of the slaughter and murther of these three men.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "even th’Almightie selfe she did maligne, / Because to man so mercifull he was, / And unto all his creatures so benigne, / Sith she her selfe was of his grace indigne […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London: Canto 3, page 107:",
          "text": "The antient Heroes were illustrious\nFor being benigne, and not blustrous,\nAgainst a vanquisht foe:",
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        }
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        "Obsolete spelling of benign.."
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          "ref": "1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:",
          "text": "And further I imagined and sayd, Alasse what Judge is he that is so gentle or benigne, that will thinke that I am unguilty of the slaughter and murther of these three men.",
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        },
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