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Webster 1913 Edition


Malignancy

{

Ma-lig′nance

,

Ma-lig′nan-cy

, }
Noun.
[See
Malignant
.]
1.
The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will;
as,
malignancy
of heart
.
2.
Unfavorableness; evil nature.
The
malignancy
of my fate might perhaps distemner yours.
Shakespeare
3.
(Med.)
Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue;
as, the
malignancy
of an ulcer or of a fever
.
5.
The state of being a malignant.

Webster 1828 Edition


Malignancy

MALIG'NANCY

,
Noun.
[See Malignant.] Extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as malignancy of heart.
1.
Unfavorableness; unpropitiousness; as the malignancy of the aspect of planets.
The malignancy of my fate might distemper yours.
2.
Virulence; tendency to mortification or to a fatal issue; as the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

Definition 2024


malignancy

malignancy

English

Noun

malignancy (plural malignancies)

  1. The state of being malignant or diseased.
  2. A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
  3. That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
    • Shakespeare
      The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
    • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles:
      A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.

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