malignity
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malignity
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From Middle English malignete, malignitee, malignyte, malyngnite, from Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitās. By surface analysis, malign + -ity.
* (a group of goblins): Coined by David Malki in the 30 October 2009 Wondermark webcomic strip “Supernatural Collective Nouns”.
noun malignities
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The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
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 media
Similar: baseness, depravity, malice, perversion, bad manners, badness, delinquency, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, disobedience
- A non-benign cancer; a malignancy. The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.
- A group of goblins. 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.
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