Definition of Malevolency

1. Noun. The quality of threatening evil.

Exact synonyms: Malevolence, Malice
Specialized synonyms: Bitchiness, Cattiness, Nastiness, Spite, Spitefulness, Cruelness, Cruelty, Harshness, Beastliness, Meanness
Generic synonyms: Evil, Evilness
Derivative terms: Malevolent, Malevolent

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malevolency

maleos
malepractice
malepractices
maleruption
males
malestream
malesub
malesubs
malet
maletreat
maletreated
maletreating
maletreats
malevolence
malevolences
malevolency (current term)
malevolent
malevolent program
malevolently
malevolous
malexecution
maleyl
maleylacetate reductase
maleylacetoacetate
maleylacetoacetic acid
maleylpyruvate isomerase
malfatti
malfeasance
malfeasances
malfeasant

Literary usage of Malevolency

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

1. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1852)
"We have already shewed the malevolency of the one, and there need no more proof of it than his own Paper; But as for the other, he has given us just ..."

2. Ninety-six Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes (1843)
"Indeed the sword is in no fault, there is no malignancy in the iron; all the malevolency is in him, and is diffused through his mind, at whose side it hangs ..."

3. Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road by Lucian Swift Kirtland (1918)
"... but its general character was steeped in malevolency against all human kind. It hated Hori no less violently than it did us or strangers. ..."

4. Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road by Lucian Swift Kirtland (1919)
"... but its general character was steeped in malevolency against all human kind. It hated Hori no less violently than it did us or strangers. ..."

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