Middle English Dictionary Entry
malignitẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | malignitẹ̄ n. Also malingnite, malignete. |
| Etymology | OF maligneté |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Wicked malice; (b) ill will, hostility.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390 Psalt.Mariae(1) (Vrn)1178 : Heil Moder..Þorwh whom enemys ben ouercome, And craft of malyngnite [L ars maligna].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.513 : Thanne comth malignitee [vr. malignete], thurgh which a man anoyeth his neighebore pryuely if he may..as for to brennen his hous pryuely.
b
- (a1500) Collect.Anglo-Premonst.in RHS ser.3.12173 : Ye nor none that longeth to you never hade, noght hath, nor schall hafe any causes of malignyte nor wrath resonableby agenst me.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. malignity.