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malignity
Part of speech: NounThe state of being disposed to do evil to others; malice; deadly quality; as, the malignity of cancer.
Usage examples "malignity":- The extreme vulgarity and malignity of this notice indicates the spirit which gave birth to this detestable law, and continues it in being. - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.
- But she felt herself to be stronger than all the malignity of the universe. - "Home Fires in France", Dorothy Canfield.
- That there is a mysterious and awful malignity attaching to sin- that to be in sin means to be in misery and ruin in this life or any other life- and that sin persisted in tends to utter and irretrievable ruin. - "The Gospel of the Hereafter", J. Paterson-Smyth.