Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MA-LIG'NAN-CY
MA-LIG'NAN-CY, n. [See Malignant.]
- Extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
- Unfavorableness; unpropitiousness; as, the malignancy of the aspect of planets. The malignancy of my fate might distemper yours. Shak.
- Virulence; tendency to mortification or to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
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