malignityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

malignity (countable and uncountable, plural malignities)

1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

   Synonyms: baseness, depravity, malice, perversion; see also Thesaurus:badness, Thesaurus:iniquity

   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 251–252:

     He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter.

   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter LIII, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

     His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 265:

     On the door-threshold Mina turned, and her eyes fastened on Woona in concentrated malignity.

2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
   • 2005, R.L. Abada et al., “Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.

3. (fantasy, neologism, collective) A group of goblins.
   • 2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam (Discworld; 40), London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 31:

     There was a whole malignity‡ of goblins up on the roof, but if you wanted your clacks to fly fast, you didn’t use the term out loud.

     ‡ The official collective noun for a bunch of goblins.

   • 2022, JT Lawrence, The Haunted Portal (Cursebreaker; 2), Muonic Press Inc, →ISBN:

     A malignity of goblins chattered loudly, some of them standing on their table.

   • 2023, Nova Nelson, All the Faire’s a Stage (Magical Renaissance Faire Mysteries; 7), The Faire Ladies LLC, →ISBN:

     As a malignity of goblins giggled drunkenly in a corner booth, Fabian and I approached the table with Isaac and Hakim.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:malignity.

参照

• “malignity, n.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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