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malignation

malignation noun: malignment.

Noun

malignation (countable and uncountable, plural malignations)

  1. (uncommon) Malignment.
    • […] and vtterly in our heartes conceyue, that it is farre from our duetie of allegiaunce to beleue vntrue repoꝛtes and falſe malignations agaynſte our ſoverayne.c. 1532, Henry VIII, A glaſſ of the truthe, London: Thomas Berthelet
    • […] he can afford to stand the brunt of a few stray shots from such nurselings of vanity as have wasted their feeble strength in still more feeble satire and malignation.1858, Kinahan Cornwallis, “Useful and Pictorial” (chapter XIV), in The New El Dorado; or, British Columbia, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 158
  2. The process of becoming malignant.

Forms of malignation

pluralmalignations

Origin of malignation

From malign + -ation.

Questions about malignation

What does malignation mean?
Malignation means malignment.
What part of speech is malignation?
Malignation is a noun.
What is the plural of malignation?
The plural of malignation is malignations.

Words near malignation in the dictionary

  1. malignant
  2. malignant catarrhal fever
  3. malignant edema
  4. malignantly
  5. malignants
  6. malignation
  7. malignations
  8. maligne
  9. maligned
  10. maligner
  11. maligners

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