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Definition of Malignance

1. Noun. (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death.

2. Noun. Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will.

Definition of Malignance

1. n. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

Definition of Malignance

1. Noun. malignancy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Malignance

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malignance

maliceful maliceless malices malicho malichos malicing malicious malicious gossip malicious mischief malicious prosecution

maliciously maliciousness maliciousnesses maliferous malign malignance (current term) malignances malignancies malignancy malignancy and immunodeficiency

malignant malignant anaemia malignant anemia malignant carcinoid syndrome malignant catarrh malignant catarrh of cattle malignant catarrhal fever malignant catarrhal fever virus malignant ciliary epithelioma malignant dysentery

Literary usage of Malignance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"Again, similar evidence is to be had that the number attacked and the malignance of the disease pretty generally correspond with the prevalence of filth, ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... malignance (ma-lig'nans), n. [< malign<ni(t) + -ce.] Su mi1 as malignancy. The minister, as being much neerer both In eye and duty then the magistrate, ..."

3. War--what For? by George Ross Kirkpatrick (1910)
"Always, too, cunning, deception, malignance, egoism, egotism, coarse-grained dispositions, cheap ambitions, swaggering manners, fierce eyes, and the soft, ..."

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