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Definition of Malignity

1. Noun. Wishing evil to others.

2. Noun. Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will.

Definition of Malignity

1. n. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

Definition of Malignity

1. Noun. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness. ¹

2. Noun. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Malignity

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Medical Definition of Malignity

1. 1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. "His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease." (Hayward) 3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. Synonym: See Malice. Origin: F. Malignite, L. Malignitas. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malignity

malignant tertian fever malignant tertian malaria malignant tertian malarial parasite malignant tumor malignant tumour malignantly maligned maligner maligners malignified

malignifies malignify malignifying maligning malignities malignity (current term) malignly malignment maligns malihini

malihinis malik maliks malimbe malimbes maline malines malinger malingered malingerer

Literary usage of Malignity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Illustrations of Lying: In All Its Branches by Amelia Alderson Opie (1827)
"Not that malignity is an unfrequent feeling ;— not that dislike or envy, ... LIES OF FIRST-RATE malignity come next to be considered : and I think that 1 am ..."

2. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"In all the Oriental sects, this primary principle, malignity the malignity of matter, haunted the imagination ; and to this principle every tenet must be ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1841)
"... the attention of some one competent to the task of unveiling its mysteries and pointing out the means by which it may be disarmed of its malignity; ..."

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