Defn: In a malignant manner.
MALIGNER
Ma*lign"er, n.
Defn: One who maligns.
MALIGNIFY
Ma*lig"ni*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malignified; p. pr. & vb. n.
Malignifying.] Etym: [L. malignus malign + -fy.]
Defn: To make malign or malignant. [R.] "A strong faith malignified."
Southey.
MALIGNITY
Ma*lig"ni*ty, n. Etym: [F. malignité, L. malignitas.]
1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward.
3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. [R.]
Syn.
— See Malice.