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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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