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单词 malignancy
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malignancyn.

Brit. /məˈlɪɡnənsi/, U.S. /məˈlɪɡnənsi/
Forms: 1600s malignancie, 1600s– malignancy.
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: malignant adj., -ancy suffix; Latin malignantia.
Etymology: Either < malignant adj. (see -ancy suffix), or directly < post-classical Latin malignantia (late 12th cent. in a British source) < malignant- (see malignant adj.) + -ia -y suffix3. Compare slightly earlier malignance n.
1. Something that is malignant; a malignant quality.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > ill will, malevolence > [noun] > instance of
disfavour1556
malignancy1609
1609 C. Tourneur Funerall Poeme sig. C2 That had the strength of patience to dispise The bitter censures of malignancies, In managements so subiect to construction.
1682 N. Grew Idea Philos. Hist. Plants 5 in Anat. Plants What may best correct their Malignancies, or inforce their Virtues.
1843 Southern Q. Rev. July 198 First physicians were a species of conjurors, or wizards... Incantations, sorceries and mummeries of divers kinds, were the means which they employed to counteract the causes of imaginary malignancy.
1869 H. Bushnell Women's Suffrage vii. 141 They let in also little malignancies that are poisonous.
1899 Daily News 29 May 8/5 The merits of whose members compensate for the malignancies of their [golf] course.
1986 B. Gilroy Frangipani House viii. 36 Mama King smouldered. A malignancy came over her wrinkled face.
2. Malign or baleful character; unpropitiousness; great injuriousness. Obsolete.
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > nature of > malign
malignancya1616
malefice1652
the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [noun]
infirmity1481
unwholesomenessa1513
contagiousness1530
evilness1563
malignity1585
unhealthfulness1598
untemperaturea1604
unhealthsomeness1613
healthlessness1655
unsoundness1660
insalubrity1663
unhealthiness1666
unsalubrity1694
malignancy1732
pestilentiousness1748
mal-influence1792
insanitariness1881
insanitation1884
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. i. 4 My starres shine darkely ouer me; the malignancie of my fate, might perhaps distemper yours. View more context for this quotation
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 101 Jupiter [is placed] next Saturn, to abate his malignancy.
1732 True & Faithful Narr. in J. Swift Misc. III. ii. 269 There might be a Pestilential Malignancy in the Air, occasion'd by the Comet.
3. Malignant or intensely malevolent disposition; envenomed hostility; desire to inflict injury or suffering.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > ill-will > [noun]
evil willc897
leth971
loathc1175
atterness?c1225
ill1303
maltalentc1330
ill-willingnessa1340
talenta1380
malignityc1390
ill willa1400
fellnessc1410
malevolencec1454
malignation?c1500
hatefulness1548
malignance1605
malevolency1635
malignancy1640
reptilism1821
fiendism1852
unbenignity1867
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > ill will, malevolence > [noun]
evil willc897
leth971
loathc1175
atterness?c1225
ill1303
maltalentc1330
ill-willingnessa1340
talenta1380
malignityc1390
ill willa1400
with hard (also sorry) gracec1405
malevolencec1454
malignation?c1500
malignitiesa1529
hatefulness1548
malignance1605
fiendishness1613
malevolency1635
malignancy1640
fellness1678
malevolentness1727
malignantness1727
reptilism1821
unbenignity1867
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 109 His eldest Graff succeeded him a while in Royall favour; but he quickly fell, by the malignancie of great ones.
1683 J. Dryden Life Plutarch 43 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I The meer malignancy of a Spirit delighted naturally in mischief.
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 390 Penetration gives her more Artifice and Malignancy.
1782 E. Blower George Bateman III. 118 The malignancy of disappointed playwrights.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 17 A war unequalled in history for its fierce and determined malignancy.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 505 If a man were..shot with an arrow, the cause of death is clearly the malignancy of the person using these weapons.
1927 A. Conan Doyle in Strand Mag. Feb. 114/1 One could conceive those small, vicious eyes darting pure malignancy as they looked forth upon the world.
1990 D. McFarland Music Room 91 I was getting strong hits of my own malignancy and sloth.
4. Disaffection to constituted authority; spec. (originally depreciative) sympathy with the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. Cf. malignant n. Obsolete.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > political disaffection > [noun]
disaffection1607
malignancy1644
antarchy1656
1644 (title) A medicine for malignancy: or Parliament pill serving to purge out the malignant humours of men disaffected to the Republic.
1645 in J. B. Greenshields Ann. Parish Lesmahagow (1864) 153 The Lady Marquesse of Douglasse,..being gravely examined anent her malignancie and obstinate continewance in the profession of poperie.
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. ii. i. 3 The malignancy, which at that time began to appear in people.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης ix. 84 Many of the Lords and some few of the Commons, either intic'd away by the King, or overaw'd by the sence of thir own Malignancy not prevailing, deserted the Parlament.
1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον Ep. Ded. sig. A2 v Each holy Text that mentioned a King, was then a note of Malignancy.
5. Medicine.
a. The property of being malignant (see malignant adj. 3a); the degree to which a neoplasm or (formerly) other type of disease is malignant. Now also: malignant neoplastic disease.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > degree of intensity > violence or severity
malicea1382
vehemency?1541
malignity1543
acutenessa1644
virulency1651
malignancy1693
virulence1748
severity1808
acuity1839
fulminancy1887
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 726 The Fever inclining to Malignancy.
a1706 J. Evelyn Life Mrs. Godolphin (1939) 77 There appearing a kind of Eresypelas..the Malignancy grew desperate.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 28 A slow..Fever..turned to a burning Malignancy.
1826 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 5) i. xxvi. 202 It cannot be cured without an operation; but it is quite free from malignancy.
1898 Arch. Surg. 9 295 The tumour..was..so suggestive of malignancy that amputation was contemplated.
1929 Radiology 13 316/2 Squamous carcinoma, malignancy of varying grades.
1952 G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) ix. 406 Apart from their capacity to induce malignancy, these agents have one cytological action in common.
1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) vi. 695 The most important characteristic of malignancy is the ability to metastasise.
1998 New Scientist 7 Feb. 78/2 (advt.) A research programme on tissue factor, thrombin generation and human pancreatic malignancy.
b. A malignant neoplasm.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > malignant tumours
cancer1527
carcinoma1583
crab1614
scirrhus1759
sarcoma1804
malignant melanoma1838
melanocarcinoma1857
adenosarcoma1871
adenocarcinoma1872
angiosarcoma1873
lymphosarcoma1874
mycosis fungoides1874
melanosarcoma1875
osteosarcoma1876
chondrosarcoma1883
psammosarcoma1886
trophoblast1889
liposarcoma1893
multiple myeloma1897
sarcoid1899
leiomyosarcoma1914
spongioblastoma1918
osteogenic sarcoma1923
sympathicoblastoma1927
reticulosarcoma1928
carcinoma in situ1932
malignancy1934
teratocarcinoma1946
sympathoblastoma1960
sympathogonioma1966
sympathicogonioma1974
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Malignancy,..a malignant tumor; as, a malignancy of the breast.
1935 C. J. Imperatori & H. J. Burman Dis. Nose & Throat xxx. 352 Operable malignancies are those which are limited to the soft palate, or uvula.
1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 24 Apr. 4 a/3 She told me the doctor had just told Mr. Coffee he had a malignancy and she wanted me to know.
1988 P. Gay Freud xii. 634 Freud stopped work..in early September, when there were alarming signs that his malignancy was active once again.
1993 New Scientist 4 Dec. 23/2 The bleeding is not a problem as it is not an indication of a malignancy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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