malignity in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ mə'ligniti ] ]
Examples
- In 1612 Atkins was called into consultation during the last illness of Henry, Prince of Wales, and his opinion was that the disease was a putrid fever " without malignity, except that attending putridity ".
- Published from the Original, Written with his own hand, & and sent by him at his Death to Doctor Lloyd, 4to, London, 1679 . He speaks of his unfortunate companion with ill-concealed malignity.
- When added to his distinction between beneficial ( agreeable ) and harmful ( malignities ) excitants, Brown provided the basis for understanding how the level of excitability / incitability ( potential ) can be shifted upwards ( potentiated ).
- Jonathan L . Rees wrote last January in the British Medical Journal : The arguments relating melanoma to sun exposure are well rehearsed, but the relation is not nearly as clear-cut as it is between sun exposure and squamous cell malignity.
- In his book on the epidemic, published in 1794, he wrote : " This discovery of the malignity _ extent _ and origin of a fever which I knew to be highly contagious as well as mortal gave me great pain.
- Fond admiration and partial friendship should not be suffered to represent his virtues with exaggeration; nor should malignity be allowed, under a specious disguise, to magnify mere defects, the usual failing of human nature, into vice or gross deformity.
- Romney concluded, " Best reason to see " The Salvation " : its chief varmint, played with ornery glint and bristling whiskers by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who has the sleepy-eyed malignity of vintage western heavy Jack Elam ".
- By Howard Bahr . ( Owl / Holt, paper, $ 12 . ) The malignity of war is captured with post-Vietnam graphic ferocity in this novel about a group of Mississippi soldiers who are much worse than decimated in an assault on a Federal line.
- Chief Justice Burger pointed out that the famous legal author William Blackstone wrote that sodomy was a crime against nature'. . . of'deeper malignity than rape', a heinous act'the very mention of which is a disgrace to human nature'and'a crime not fit to be named.
- According to the " Vita Ansgari " by Rimbert, " After this it happened that a king named Heriold ( Latin : Herioldus ), who ruled over some of the Danes, was assailed by hatred and malignity, and was driven from his kingdom by the other kings of the same province.