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ma·lev·o·lence    Audio Help   [muh-lev-uh-luhns] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
[Origin: 1425–75; < L malevolentia (see malevolent, -ence); r. late ME malivolence < MF < L as above]

—Synonyms maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, grudge, venom. Malevolence, malignity, rancor suggest the wishing of harm to others. Malevolence is a smoldering ill will: a vindictive malevolence in her expression. Malignity is a deep-seated and virulent disposition to injure; it is more dangerous than malevolence, because it is not only more completely concealed but it often instigates harmful acts: The malignity of his nature was shocking. Rancor is a lasting, corrosive, and implacable hatred and resentment.
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ma·lev·o·lence    Audio Help   (mə-lěv'ə-ləns)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The quality or state of being malevolent.
  2. Malicious behavior.


[Middle English, from Old French malivolence, from Latin malevolentia, from malevolēns, malevolent-, malevolent : male, badly; see mel-3 in Indo-European roots + volēns, present participle of velle, to want; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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malevolence 
c.1489, from O.Fr. malevolence, from L. malevolentia, from malevolentem (nom. malevolens) "malevolent," from male "badly" + volentem (nom. volens), prp. of velle "to wish."

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malevolence

noun
1. wishing evil to others [ant: benevolence] 
2. the quality of threatening evil 

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Malevolence

Ma*lev"o*lence\, n. [L. malevolentia. See Malevolent.] The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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