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Definition of Malevolency
1. Noun. The quality of threatening evil.
Specialized synonyms: Bitchiness, Cattiness, Nastiness, Spite, Spitefulness, Cruelness, Cruelty, Harshness, Beastliness, Meanness
Generic synonyms: Evil, Evilness
Derivative terms: Malevolent, Malevolent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malevolency
Literary usage of Malevolency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1852)
"We have already shewed the malevolency of the one, and there need no more proof
of it than his own Paper; But as for the other, he has given us just ..."
2. Ninety-six Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes (1843)
"Indeed the sword is in no fault, there is no malignancy in the iron; all the
malevolency is in him, and is diffused through his mind, at whose side it hangs ..."
3. Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road by Lucian Swift Kirtland (1918)
"... but its general character was steeped in malevolency against all human kind.
It hated Hori no less violently than it did us or strangers. ..."
4. Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road by Lucian Swift Kirtland (1919)
"... but its general character was steeped in malevolency against all human kind.
It hated Hori no less violently than it did us or strangers. ..."
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