Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MA-LIGN
MA-LIGN, v.t.
- To regard with envy or malice; to treat with extreme enmity; to injure maliciously. The people practice mischief against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods and murdering them. Spenser.
- To traduce; to defame.
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