malignation

plural malignations

1. countableuncommonuncountableMalignment.First known use 16th c.

   […] and vtterly in our heartes conceyue, that it is farre from our duetie of allegiaunce to beleue vntrue repoꝛtes and falſe malignations agaynſte our ſoverayne.

   c. 1532, Henry VIII, A glaſſ of the truthe, London: Thomas Berthelet

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   […] he can afford to stand the brunt of a few stray shots from such nurselings of vanity as have wasted their feeble strength in still more feeble satire and malignation.

   1858, Kinahan Cornwallis, “Useful and Pictorial” (chapter XIV), in The New El Dorado; or, British Columbia, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 158

   But the day of retribution has arrived and the clean exbibitor’s answer to the malignation of the men who have stood up for a real brotherhood of motion picture interests thruout the land is irrefutably registered on the A. E. A. application blanks.

   1917 October 6, “Chicago Film Flashes”, in The Billboard, volume 29, number 6, page 68

   Every citizen has as full a right to be protected by the laws from malignation scandal and false charges as a member of Con­gress has a right to utter them in his seat.

   1950 March 31, James Marlow, “The Nation Today”, in Washington C.H. Record-Herald, volume 70, number 45, page 7

2. countableuncountablemedicineThe process of becoming malignant.