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malice

noun
/ˈmælɪs/

Etymology

From Middle English malice, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).

  1. derived from malitia — “badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”
  2. derived from malice
  3. inherited from malice

Definitions

  1. Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in…

    Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.

    • Your voice positively drips malice.
    • […] not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.

  2. An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a…

    An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.

  3. To intend to cause harm

    To intend to cause harm; to bear malice.

    • Thou blinded God (quod I) forgive me this offence, / Unwittingly I went about, to malice thy pretence.
    • Who on the other ſide did ſeeme ſo farre / From malicing, or grudging his good houre, / That, all he could, he graced him with her, / Ne euer ſhewed ſigne of rancour or of iarre.
    • His paines, his pouertie, his ſharpe aſſayes, / Through which he paſt his miſerable dayes, / Offending none, and doing good to all, / Yet being maliſt both of great and ſmall.

The neighborhood

Derived

actual malice, constructive malice, malice aforethought, maliceful, malice in fact, malice in law, maliceless, malice murder, malice prepense, malicious, mute of malice

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at malice. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at malice. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at malice

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA