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Webster 1913 Edition
Malignity
Ma-lig′ni-ty
,Noun.
[F.
malignité
, L. malignitas
.] 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[R.]
Syn. – See
Malice
. Webster 1828 Edition
Malignity
MALIG'NITY
,Noun.
1.
Virulence; destructive tendency; as the malignity of an ulcer or disease.2.
Extreme evilness of nature; as the malignity of fraud.3.
Extreme sinfulness; enormity or heinousness; as the malignity of sin.Definition 2024
malignity
malignity
English
Noun
malignity (countable and uncountable, plural malignities)
- The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 40:
- His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 40:
- A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
- 2005, Jun;106(3):177-80 English abstract of French article "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma" R.L. Abada et al., "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma", Revue de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale
- The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.
- 2005, Jun;106(3):177-80 English abstract of French article "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma" R.L. Abada et al., "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma", Revue de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale