Malignity vs Spite - What's the difference?
malignity | spite |
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
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
As nouns the difference between malignity and spite
is that malignity is the quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness while spite is ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.As a verb spite is
to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.As a preposition spite is
notwithstanding; despite.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
spite
English
Etymology 1
From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.Noun
(en-noun)- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite .
- This is the deadly spite that angers.
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
Verb
(spit)- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.