Malignity vs Pestilence - What's the difference?
malignity | pestilence | Related terms |
The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
* 1861 , Charles Dickens, Great Expectations , :
A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
* 2005 , Jun;106(3):177-80
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
Malignity is a related term of pestilence.
As a noun malignity
is the quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.As a proper noun pestilence is
the personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.malignity
English
Noun
- 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.
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
pestilence
English
Noun
(en noun)- The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
