The quality or nature of being harmful or evil.
1 In all their lamentations soundeth vengeance, in all their eulogies is maleficence ; and being judge seemeth to them bliss.
2 Of course society has to make an occasional example and its moral maleficence , like death, loved a shining mark.
3 Even when thou art gentle towards them, they still feel themselves despised by thee; and they repay thy beneficence with secret maleficence .
4 I looked around the cell and saw that my warning had brought to life deep suspicions that even a child could harbor maleficence .
5 Then he shows us how the small-scale maleficence we encounter daily might credibly burgeon into evil as spectacular as can readily be imagined.
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