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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.
[L. malignitas.] Extreme enmity, or evil dispositions of heart towards another; malice without provocation, or malevolence with baseness of heart; deep rooted spite.
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.

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