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Maleficence

//məˈlɛfɪsəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    harmfulness or mischief. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the quality or nature of being harmful or evil wordnet
  3. 3
    doing or causing evil wordnet

Etymology

From Italian maleficenza or Middle French maleficence or directly from Latin maleficentia.

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