Bane vs Malignancy - What's the difference?
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A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse
* Herbert
(dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants
(obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer
(obsolete) destruction; death
* Milton
A disease of sheep; the rot.
To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
To be the bane of.
The state of being malignant or diseased.
A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Arthur Conan Doyle, title=The Hound of the Baskervilles
, passage=A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.}}
Bane is a related term of malignancy.
As nouns the difference between bane and malignancy
is that bane is dwelling, abode, residence, half dilapidated house while malignancy is the state of being malignant or diseased.bane
English
(wikipedia bane)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bane, from (etyl) bana, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the bane of my existence
- Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
- The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane .
Antonyms
* (affliction or curse) boonDerived terms
* baneberry * baneful * boon and bane * wolfsbaneVerb
(ban)Etymology 2
From (etyl) northern dialect ban, from (etyl)References
*Anagrams
* * ----malignancy
English
Noun
(malignancies)- The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
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