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Malignity vs Execrate - What's the difference?

malignity | execrate |

As a noun malignity

is the quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

As a verb execrate is

to feel loathing for; abhor.

malignity

English

Noun

  • The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
  • * 1861 , Charles Dickens, Great Expectations , :
  • His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
  • A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
  • * 2005 , Jun;106(3):177-80 English abstract of French article "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma" R.L. Abada et al., "Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma", Revue de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale
  • The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.

    References

    * Webster's Dictionary On-line * Catholic Archives Notre Dame University * (w, Strong's Concordance) * King James Version of the Bible

    execrate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To feel loathing for; abhor.
  • To declare to be hateful or abhorrent; denounce.
  • (archaic) To invoke a curse.
  • Derived terms

    * execrable * execration * execrative * execratory