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Malevolence

//məˈlɛvələns// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Hostile attitude or feeling. countable, uncountable

    "to show someone malevolence"

  2. 2
    the quality of threatening evil wordnet
  3. 3
    Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    wishing evil to others wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from malevolēns (“malevolent”).

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