malice

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French malice, from Latin malitia (“badness, bad quality, ill-will, spite”), from malus (“bad”).

• enPR: măl'ĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈmælɪs/

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malice (usually uncountable, plural malices)

1. Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
   • 1981, Philip K. Dick, Valis, →ISBN, page 67:

     […] not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.

2. (law) An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter.

• ill will
• wickedness
• evilness

• malicious

• malady

• malice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• malice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• amelic, claime, maleic

From malico +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /maˈlit͡se/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lic‧e
• Rhymes: -it͡se

malice

1. maliciously

From Old French malice, borrowed from Latin malitia.

• IPA^(key): /ma.lis/

malice f (plural malices)

1. mischief
2. malice

• mal

• etymology

• “malice” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Latin malitia.

malice f (oblique plural malices, nominative singular malice, nominative plural malices)

1. malice, evilness, evil intentions
2. malicious act

• French: malice

• malice on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub