Definition for MA-LIG'NAN-CY

MA-LIG'NAN-CY, n. [See Malignant.]

  1. Extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
  2. Unfavorableness; unpropitiousness; as, the malignancy of the aspect of planets. The malignancy of my fate might distemper yours. Shak.
  3. Virulence; tendency to mortification or to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

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