Malice

  • 11malice — (n.) c.1300, desire to hurt another, from O.Fr. malice ill will, spite, sinfulness, wickedness (12c.), from L. malitia badness, ill will, spite, from malus bad (see MAL (Cf. mal )). In legal use, wrongful intent generally (1540s) …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 12Malice — Mal ice, v. t. To regard with extreme ill will. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 13Malice — (franz., spr. īß ), Bosheit, Tücke; boshafte Äußerung; maliziös (malitiös), boshaft, tückisch …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 14Malice — (frz., spr. ihß), Bosheit, bes. boshafte Äußerung; maliziös, boshaft, tückisch …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 15malice — [n] hate, vengefulness acerbity, animosity, animus, antipathy, bad blood, bane, bile, bitterness, despite, despitefulness, dirt, dislike, down, enmity, evil, grudge, hatefulness, hatred, hostility, ill will, implacability, malevolence,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 16malice — ► NOUN ▪ the desire to do harm to someone; ill will. ORIGIN Old French, from Latin malus bad …

    English terms dictionary

  • 17malice — (ma li s ) s. f. 1°   Inclination à malfaire. •   Il te restait encor, pour comble de malice, à te lier d amour avecque Massinisse, MAIRET Sophon. I, 1. •   La justice du simple rendra sa voie heureuse, le méchant périra par sa malice, SACI Bible …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 18malice — The intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or excuse, with an intent to inflict an injury or under circumstances that the law will imply an evil intent. A condition of mind which prompts a person to do a wrongful act willfully,… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 19malice — The intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or excuse, with an intent to inflict an injury or under circumstances that the law will imply an evil intent. A condition of mind which prompts a person to do a wrongful act willfully,… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 20MALICE — s. f. Inclination à nuire, à mal faire, à causer de la peine. Grande malice. Il a un fonds de malice. Cela procède d une malice noire. Sa malice s est décelée dans cette affaire. Il est plein de malice. Il a fait cela par malice. S il ne fait pas …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)