Malignity

Definitions

1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
   countable, uncountable
2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
   countable, uncountable
3. A group of goblins.
   collective, countable, neologism, uncountable

Equivalents

3 more languages

Suomimaligniteetti

한국어악성

Latinaamentiamalignitas

Examples

“He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter.”

“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.”

“On the door-threshold Mina turned, and her eyes fastened on Woona in concentrated malignity.”

“The absence of any histological sign⟳ of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.”

“There was a whole malignity‡ of goblins up on the roof, but if you wanted your clacks to fly⟳ fast, you didn’t use⟳ the term out loud.”

“A malignity of goblins chattered loudly, some of them standing on their table.”

“As a malignity of goblins giggled drunkenly in a corner booth, Fabian and I approached the table with Isaac and Hakim.”

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