A blessing, timely and welcome benefit, something beneficial bestowed
upon one, something to be thankful for.
A boon once meant a favor or request. In stories of yore—of time long
past—knights, courtiers, and all manner of supplicants would bow before
their kings and queens and say, “As your humble servant, I beseech you to
grant me this boon.” Are you wondering what supplicant means? A
supplicant (SUHP-li-kint) is a person who begs for something, and
supplication is the act of begging for something humbly and earnestly.
Getting back to boon, the meaning “favor, request” is now archaic
(ahr-KAY-ik), or old-fashioned, and today boon is used to mean a blessing,
a timely and welcome benefit, something to be thankful for, as in “This
good weather is a boon”; “His efforts were a boon to their enterprise.”
王二狗Mark
A blessing, timely and welcome benefit, something beneficial bestowed upon one, something to be thankful for. A boon once meant a favor or request. In stories of yore—of time long past—knights, courtiers, and all manner of supplicants would bow before their kings and queens and say, “As your humble servant, I beseech you to grant me this boon.” Are you wondering what supplicant means? A supplicant (SUHP-li-kint) is a person who begs for something, and supplication is the act of begging for something humbly and earnestly.
王二狗Mark
Getting back to boon, the meaning “favor, request” is now archaic (ahr-KAY-ik), or old-fashioned, and today boon is used to mean a blessing, a timely and welcome benefit, something to be thankful for, as in “This good weather is a boon”; “His efforts were a boon to their enterprise.”