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Vinony

malignancy

noun

  1. medical description of a continuously destructive illness; tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse; characterization of cancer, characterized by anaplasia, invasiveness, and metastasis
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Pronunciation: /məˈlɪɡ.nən.si/

noun

Etymology: From malignant + -cy or malign + -ancy or Latin malignantia.

  1. The state of being malignant or diseased.
  2. A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
  3. That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.

    “[T]he malignancie of my fate, might perhaps diſtemper yours; […]”

    “A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.”