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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
malignity
    n 1: wishing evil to others [syn: malevolence, malignity]
         [ant: benevolence]
    2: quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [syn:
       malignity, malignancy, malignance] [ant: benignancy,
       benignity, graciousness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Malignity \Ma*lig"ni*ty\, n. [F. malignit['e], L. malignitas.]
   1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do
      evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
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   2. Virulence; deadly quality.
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            His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in
            his disease.                          --Hayward.
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   3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness;
      heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. [R.]
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   Syn: See Malice.
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