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    maleficence
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun maleficence has 2 senses
- maleficence(n = noun.feeling) Array - doing or causing evil; Array is a kind of malevolence, malignity
 - maleficence(n = noun.attribute) balefulness, mischief - the quality or nature of being harmful or evil; Array is a kind of evil, evilness
 
Antonym: beneficence
Derived form adjective maleficent1
Antonym: beneficence
Derived form adjective maleficent1
CIDE DICTIONARY
maleficence, n. [L. maleficentia.  Cf. Malfeasance.]. 
                                            
                                         Evil doing, esp. to others.                                                                                 [1913 Webster]                                                                                                                    
                                                                                    
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