boon
A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
[T]he hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man[.]
(obsolete) A prayer; petition.
(Britain, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
(Hindu mythology) A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.
Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
Greedily she ingorg’d without restraint, / And knew not eating Death: Satiate at length, / And hight’nd as with Wine, jocond and boon, / Thus to herself she pleasingly began.
I know the Infirmity of our Family; we are apt to play the Boon-Companion, and throw away our Money in our Cups: […]
I’m a lonely old man; I lead a life that I don’t like, among boon companions, who make me melancholy.
―No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn’t personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, Dr Mulligan, as a guide, philosopher, and friend, if I were in your shoes.
[T]he boon twins Art and Con aged thirty-seven years […]
(archaic) Kind; bountiful; benign.
With mazie error under pendant shades / Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed / Flours worthy of Paradise which not nice Art / In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon / Powrd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / […]
(obsolete) Good; prosperous.
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