Etymology

malignity

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Today it means: The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness. Full definition →

Middle English malignete ← Middle French maligneté ← Latin malignitās
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  1. Latin · derived frommalignitās
  2. Middle French · derived frommaligneté
  3. Middle English · inherited frommalignete
  4. English todaymalignity

From Middle English malignete, malignitee, malignyte, malyngnite, from Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitās. By surface analysis, malign + -ity. * (a group of goblins): Coined by David Malki in the 30 October 2009 Wondermark webcomic strip “Supernatural Collective Nouns”.

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