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noun

Malignancy, Malignance n.

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart.

Unfavorableness; evil nature. "The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours."

(Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

Hence: (Med.) A cancerous tumor that is spreading beyond the point of origin.

Synonyms: malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor.

The state of being a malignant.

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Etymology of 'Malignance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Malignance" Quotes from Famous Books

... the luncheon brought to him, might have been prolonged. He hadn't remembered a quarter of the delightful contingencies that arise when the right man and woman are wrecked on an island, but he looked up from his plate to find Breede regarding him and his abundant food with a look of such stony malignance that he could eat no more—Breede with his glass of diluted milk and one intensely ...

— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson

... the cool boxer, carefully trying out his opponent. He had felt little emotion save that of self-protection. At the beginning of the fight he would have apologized to Corrigan—with reservations. Now he was stirred with the lust of battle. Corrigan's malignance had struck a responsive passion in him, and the sodden impact of fist on flesh, the matching of strength against strength, the strain of iron muscles, the contact of their bodies, the sting and burn of blows, had aroused the latent savage in him. He was still cool, however, but it was the ...

— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer