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malignity|məˈlɪgnɪtɪ|
Also 4 malignitee, malygnitee, 6 malygnyte, malignite, malygnitie, 7 malignitie.
[a. OF. malignité, ad. L. malignitās, f. malignus malign a.: see -ity.]
1. Wicked and deep-rooted ill-will or hatred; intense and persistent desire to cause suffering to another person; propensity to this feeling.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋439 Thanne comth malignitee thurgh which a man anoyeth his neighebor priuely. 1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 12 Persons..whiche beare malice and malignite to al the kinges procedinges in the said deuorse. 1593R. Harvey Philad. 17 Jealousie and malignity are two blinde guids. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. ⁋3 Neither is there any likelihood, that enuie and malignitie died, and were buried with the ancient. 1641Remonstr. St. Kingd. 3 The Commons..do yet finde an abounding Malignity, and opposition in those parties, and factions, who have been the cause of those evils. 1775Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 21 July, There are few things that are worthy of anger, and still fewer that can justify malignity. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian iv. (1826) 25 A dark malignity overspread the features of the monk. 1803Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) II. 300 The falsehood and malignity of the charge. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets iii. (1870) 84 Satan is not the principle of malignity, or of abstract love of evil. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 87 He..felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. v. 92 His flight is occasioned rather by the malignity of his countrymen than by the enmity of the Egyptians.
b. pl. Malignant feelings or actions.
a1529Skelton Col. Cloute 541 Raylynge haynously And dysdaynously Of preestly dygnytes, But theyr malygnytes. 1607Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 212 Nor would the Diuell..surcease..his cursed malignities against Christ. 1861Holland Less. Life xv. 220 If they..clothe these black malignities in silken phrases we hear them with a certain kind of pleasure.
2. Wickedness, heinousness. arch.
1534More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1199/2 We..are consumed & wasted & come to nought in our malygnitie. 1654Bramhall Just Vind. iii. (1661) 33 A title..laid aside by Protestants, not so much for any malignity that was in it, as for the ill sounds sake. 1684Contempl. St. Man ii. x. (1699) 235 So great is the Malignity of a Mortal Sin. 1702Eng. Theophrast. 180 We imitate the good out of emulation, and the bad out of our natural corruption and malignity. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 178 The more God reveals to any, what He Is,..the more utter malignity it is..to have indeed said to Him, ‘On Thy terms I will have none of Thee’.
3. Noxiousness, deleteriousness. arch.
1605Timme Quersit. i. xv. 77 Coagulated salts or tartar..doe reach to the uppermost degree of their malignity. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 250 They say, that the Owes of the Sea doe here much increase the malignitie of the aire. 1626Bacon Sylva §74, I conceive that Opium and the like, make the Spirits flie rather by Malignity, than by Cold. 1656Evelyn Diary (1850) I. 316 Cinders..deprived of their sulphur and arsenic malignity. 1705Addison Italy 230 The Sides of the Grotto are mark'd with Green, as high as the Malignity of the Vapour reaches. 1712― Spect. No. 457 ⁋3 The Lady Blast..has such a particular Malignity in her Whisper, that it blights like an Easterly Wind. 1707–12Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 251 Some propose to Macerate them [acorns] in Water first, to extract their Malignity. 1777Burke Lett. to Sheriffs of Bristol Wks. III. 136 The other [statute] (for a partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus) appears to me of a much deeper malignity. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-Bks. (1872) I. 54 The atmosphere certainly has a peculiar quality of malignity.
4. Of diseases or wounds: Malignant character, malignancy.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iii. 73 Wounds which are made with weapons excited by the Loadstone, contract a malignity, and become of more difficult cure. 1670Walton Lives iii. 225 He fell into a long and sharp sickness..from the malignity of which he was never recovered. 1747Berkeley Tar-water in Plague Wks. III. 481 An erysipelas, which sheweth a degree of malignity nearest to the plague. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. iv. Wks. 1813 I. 300 The vigour of his constitution surmounted the malignity of his disease. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 311 The natural small-pox, which almost every year desolated Mexico and Peru, has lost its malignity in those climates. 1865Cornh. Mag. XI. 599 Typhus fever..has assumed unwonted activity and malignity. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 836 Early implication of neighbouring portions of the larynx..points to malignity. |