MALIGNANCE; MALIGNANCY

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

2.
n.

Unfavorableness; evil nature. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak.

3.
n.

Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

4.
n.

The state of being a malignant.


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