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What (who) is MALIGNITY - definition
malignity
n.
1.
Malice, malevolence, maliciousness, malignancy, hatred, animosity, ill-will, rancor, spite.
2.
Virulence, fatality, malignancy, deadliness, destructiveness.
3.
Heinousness, enormity, evilness.
Malignity
·noun Virulence; deadly quality.
II. Malignity ·noun Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud.
III. Malignity ·noun The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
On the Malice of Herodotus
TREATISE BY PLUTARCH
On the malice of Herodotus; On the Malignity of Herodotus
"On the Malice of Herodotus" or "On the Malignity of Herodotus" () is an essay by Plutarch criticizing the historian Herodotus for all manner of prejudice and misrepresentation in the latter's Histories. It has been called the "first instance in literature of the slashing review.
Examples of use of MALIGNITY
1. "The politics of envy – a peerless example of malignity if ever I saw one – is alive and well.
2. The evil that Iago perpetrates in Othello – sometimes attributed to "motiveless malignity" – stems from his resentment at coming low in the pecking order, beneath Cassio, Othello‘s lieutenant and number two.
3. A newspaper, in which we utterly refuse to recognise a fair exponent of American feelings, dwells with revolting minuteness on these miserable details, and exults, with all the malignity of a vulgar mind, over the misfortune of a fallen antagonist.
4. About Muhammad, or "Mathomus" all could be said since, as the 11th–century chronicler Guilbert of Nogent had put it: "One may safely say ill of a man whose malignity transcends and surpasses whatever evil can be said about him" (Dei Gesta per Francos, 1011). Guilbert‘s Muhammad, like that of most medieval authors, bears little resemblance to the historical Muhammad, or his journey.
5. "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government," Jefferson once wrote, "I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Yet, he also said, "I deplore âЂ¦ the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them." Decades later, political polarization during the Civil War resulted in a barrage of press criticism against President Abraham Lincoln.