malignation

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English

Etymology

From malign +‎ -ation.

Noun

malignation (countable and uncountable, plural malignations)

  1. (uncommon) Malignment.
    • c. 1532, Henry VIII, A glaſſ of the truthe, 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.