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malevolence

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Etymology

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From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (malevolence), derived from malevolēns (malevolent).

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Noun

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malevolence (countable and uncountable, plural malevolences)

  1. Hostile attitude or feeling.
    to show someone malevolence
    He said it with malevolence.
    • 2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club[1]:
      Esai Morales appears as the enforcer for “the entity‘’ and brings such simmering malevolence to the character that he should have been the villain instead.
  2. Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.

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