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Malignancy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MALIG'NANCY, n. [See Malignant.] Extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as malignancy of heart.
1. Unfavorableness; unpropitiousness; as the malignancy of the aspect of planets.
The malignancy of my fate might distemper yours.
2. Virulence; tendency to mortification or to a fatal issue; as the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death [syn: malignancy, malignance]
2: quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [syn: malignity, malignancy, malignance] [ant: benignancy, benignity, graciousness]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -cies) Date: 1601 1. the quality or state of being malignant 2. a. exhibition (as by a tumor) of malignant qualities ; virulence b. a malignant tumor

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Malignance Ma*lig"nance, Malignancy Ma*lig"nan*cy, n. [See Malignant.] 1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart. 2. Unfavorableness; evil nature. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. --Shak. 3. (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. 4. The state of being a malignant. Syn: Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(malignancies) A tumour or disease in a state of malignancy is out of control and is likely to cause death. (MEDICAL) Tissue that is removed during the operation is checked for signs of malignancy. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See malignance

Moby Thesaurus

balefulness, banefulness, bitchiness, communicability, contagiousness, cussedness, deadliness, despite, destructiveness, detrimentalness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, evil intent, fatality, grudge, harmfulness, hatefulness, hurtfulness, ill will, infectiousness, infectivity, iniquitousness, injuriousness, invidiousness, lethality, maleficence, malevolence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignity, meanness, mischievousness, mortality, nastiness, noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness, orneriness, perniciousness, poison, poisonousness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, toxicity, unhealthiness, venom, venomousness, viciousness, virulence, virulency, wickedness