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Malignance

Definitions: Malignance

Malignance

Noun

1. (medical) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death.

2. Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "malignance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references)

Synonyms: Malignance

Synonyms: malignancy (n), malignity (n). (additional references)
Antonym: benignity (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Malignance

DomainTitle

Books

  • Principia Ideologica : A Treatise On Combatting Human Malignance (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Malignance

"Malignance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Malignance" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Malignance

Language Translations for "malignance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

alignancemay.(various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính thâm hiểm (malignancy, malignity), tính ác (maleficence, malignancy, malignity, mischievousness, nastiness, unrighteousness), ác tâm (ill-will, maleficence, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy), ác ý tính ác (malignancy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Malignance

Derivations

Words beginning with "malignance": malignances. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Malignance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: malignans. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Malignance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-l-m-n-n"

-1 letter: manacling.

-2 letters: analcime, angelica, calamine, canaling, cleaning, enlacing, manganic, melanian, menacing.

-3 letters: alanine, anaemic, aneling, angelic, anginal, anglice, anlagen, calming, camelia, eanling, encinal, galenic, gamelan, geminal, laminae, lancing, leaning, lineman, magical, manacle, meaning, melanic, melanin.

-4 letters: aecial, agamic, agleam, agnail, alanin, anemia, anemic, angina, animal, anlace, anlage, anneal, caiman, calami, camail, canine, caning, cannel, cannie, cinema, encina, enigma, galena, gamine, genial, glance, iceman, incage, inlace, lacing, lamiae, lamina, laming, legman, linage, lingam, macing, magian, malice, malign, maline, manage, mangel, mangle, maniac, manila, menial, milage, mingle, naming.

-5 letters: acing, aecia, again, agile, alane, alang, algae, algin, alien, align, aline, amain, amice, amiga, amine, amnia, amnic, angel, angle, anile, anima, anime, annal, camel, canal, canna, claim, clang, clean, clime, cline, cling, elain, email, galea, gamic, gamin, genic, gimel, glace, gleam, glean, glime, ileac, image, inane, ingle, lagan, lamia, lanai, lance, leman, liana, liane, liang, ligan, liman, limen, linac, linen, linga, macle, magic, maile, malic, mange, mania, manic, manna, melic, minae, mince, nance.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-l-m-n-n"
 

+1 letter: malignances.

 

+2 letters: malignancies.

 

+5 letters: miscegenational.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Malignance


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 6C 69 67 6E 61 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    .-..    ..    --.    -.    .-    -.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#103 &#110 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 006C 0069 0067 006E 0061 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47677875738067806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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