malignation

English

Etymology

From malign +‎ -ation.

Noun

malignation (countable and uncountable, plural malignations)

1. (uncommon) Malignment. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1532, Henry VIII, A glaſſ of the truthe‎^[1], London: Thomas Berthelet:

     […] and vtterly in our heartes conceyue, that it is farre from our duetie of allegiaunce to beleue vntrue repoꝛtes and falſe malignations agaynſte our ſoverayne.

   • 1858, Kinahan Cornwallis, “Useful and Pictorial” (chapter XIV), in The New El Dorado; or, British Columbia, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 158:

     […] he can afford to stand the brunt of a few stray shots from such nurselings of vanity as have wasted their feeble strength in still more feeble satire and malignation.

   • 1917 October 6, “Chicago Film Flashes”, in The Billboard, volume 29, number 6, page 68:

     But the day of retribution has arrived and the clean exbibitor’s answer to the malignation of the men who have stood up for a real brotherhood of motion picture interests thruout the land is irrefutably registered on the A. E. A. application blanks.

   • 1950 March 31, James Marlow, “The Nation Today”, in Washington C.H. Record-Herald, volume 70, number 45, page 7:

     Every citizen has as full a right to be protected by the laws from malignation scandal and false charges as a member of Con­gress has a right to utter them in his seat.