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.

Noun

(en noun)

An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.

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, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}

An offensive, immoral or indecent act.

The resentful anger aroused by such acts.

(obsolete) A destructive rampage.

"by the outrage and fury of the river " (from an old description of flood damage).