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Malignancy   Listen
noun
Malignancy, Malignance  n.  
1.
The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart.
2.
Unfavorableness; evil nature. "The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours."
3.
(Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
4.
Hence: (Med.) A cancerous tumor that is spreading beyond the point of origin.
Synonyms: malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor.
5.
The state of being a malignant.





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"Malignancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... it his duty to treat us as animals and to shout rudely and insolently: "Wait! Don't you come pushing your way in here!" Even the dogs, even they were hostile to us and hurled themselves at us with a peculiar malignancy. But what struck me most of all in my new position was the entire lack of justice, what the people call "forgetting God." Rarely a day went by without some swindle. The shopkeeper, who sold us oil, ...
— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff
... hoary, old, tottering, palsied villain, hurling curses at all who ventured into his evil presence. One look outside showed me the full nature of all that was before me, and revealed the old tyrant in the full power of his malignancy. The air was raw and chill. There blew a fierce, blighting wind, which brought with it showers of stinging sleet. The wooden pavements were overspread with a thin layer of ice, so glassy that walking could only be attempted at extreme hazard; the houses were ...
— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille
... almost cried out aloud. At the very door of the box Doenhof sprang up like some apparition; while behind his back she got a glimpse of the figure of the Wiesbaden critic. The 'literary man's' oily face was positively radiant with malignancy. ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev
... Christophe? They dared not. But they had to warn him to make him be cautious.—At the first words that Frau Reinhart said to him, with a blush, she saw to her horror that Christophe had also received letters. Such utter malignance appalled them. Frau Reinhart had no doubt that the whole town was in the secret. Instead of helping each other, they only undermined each other's fortitude. They did not know what to do. Christophe talked of breaking somebody's head. But whose? And besides, that would be to justify the calumny!... ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland


Words linked to "Malignancy" :   malignant, medicine, malignant tumor, evilness, disease, cancer cell, malignant neoplasm, medical specialty


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