Boon

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–noun 

1. something to be thankful for; blessing; benefit. 

2. something that is asked; a favor sought.  



–adjective 

1. jolly; jovial【羅神】(大寫)(主神) 朱庇特的; convivial【口】微醉的: boon companions. 

2. Archaic. kindly; gracious; bounteous. (慷慨的,大方的)  





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boon (adj., n.)   

 

One craves or is granted a boon, "the favorable response to a petition or prayer." A boon companion is something else, a cliché that is the only use left of boon as adjective, meaning "favorable, pleasant, convivial." All other senses of the adjective are obsolete or archaic. 





  

Creepy, well-met and utterly corrupt, and when the French invade he simply disappears — only to reappear later as, of all things, a Voltairian rationalist, married, with children, and growing rich as an enforcer for Spain's occupiers. He is, in his way, also a perfect modernist, blowing blandly and prosperously with the winds of change. As long as there is power and status to be had, he does not care who he must serve to obtain those boon[s].