01 n. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
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1.
The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
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2.
Virulence; deadly quality.“His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease.” — Hayward.
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3.
Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud.[R.]
Syn.
See Malice.