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Malignancy   /məlˈɪgnənsi/   Listen
noun
Malignancy, Malignance  n.  
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."
3.
(Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
4.
Hence: (Med.) A cancerous tumor that is spreading beyond the point of origin.
Synonyms: malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor.
5.
The state of being a malignant.






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... it a third tusked head thrust out of the brush, large eyes searched for an enemy. Dane studied the dead bull, but the animal did not come to life this time. These were not hallucinations. And the malignancy of the rock apes, the cunning of the native Khatkan lion, were pallid things compared to a graz ...
— Voodoo Planet • Andrew North

... I am to mention here, had only just missed succeeding in the passing of Bar Exam owing to the inveterate malignancy of his stars and lack of a more industrial temperament; but from the coolness of his cheek, and complete man-of-the-worldliness, is a most judicious and tip-top adviser to ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey

... different thing from that mean, bad, hostile temper which loves to inflict wounds and injuries just for the sake of showing power, and which is never so happy as when it is making some one wince. There are such people in the world, and sometimes their brilliancy tempts us to forget their malignancy. But to have much converse with them is as if we should make playmates of rattlesnakes for their grace of movement ...
— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke

... the authority of our reforming parliaments, and laws made by them; then, as these obliged the king to swear the covenants before his coronation, and all ranks to swear them, and obliged to root out malignancy, sectarianism, &c., and to promote uniformity in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, in the three nations, so the revolution settlement would have obliged all to the practice of the same duties, ...
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... to is a new tale, devised in the malignancy of party, has been asserted by you; and on this assertion is founded many of your strongest conclusions in favour of your own innocence. But what must the world think of your effrontery, when they read the following letter of Col. Alexander Hamilton, who was then Aid-de-Camp to ...
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