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maliciousness|məˈlɪʃəsnɪs|
[f. malicious a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being malicious; malevolence, spitefulness. † Of wounds or poison: Virulence, malignity.
a1450Paston Lett. I. 97 Other cause he had non to him as fer as I kan knawe, bot awnly for the malissiousness that he hath unto me. 1535Coverdale 1 Macc. vii. 42 Punysh him, acordinge to his maliciousnesse. 1555Eden Decades 53 The maliciousnes of the veneme consumed. Ibid. 122 The malyciousnesse of the venemous wounde. 1600Surflet Country Farm vi. xiii. 751 If there be many bay trees planted..all the maliciousnes of the mists will fall vpon their boughes. 1682Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 238 The court being fully satisfied with..the maliciousnesse of the prosecution. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 291/1 Who seems much embarrassed by their tiny maliciousness. |