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maleficience

maleficience is the alternative form of maleficence.

Meaning of maleficence

Noun

maleficence (countable and uncountable, plural maleficences)

  1. harmfulness or mischief.

Questions about maleficience

What is maleficience the alternative form of?
Maleficience is the alternative form of maleficence.

Words near maleficience in the dictionary

  1. maleficiary
  2. maleficiate
  3. maleficiated
  4. maleficiating
  5. maleficiation
  6. maleficience
  7. maleficient
  8. maleficiently
  9. malefics
  10. malefit
  11. malefits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maleficience (page history and authors); maleficence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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