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Malignitas

Malignitas · f

ill-will, spite, malice, envy, malignity

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Where it lives

Dialogus de Oratoribus 5 · 5.38/10k
De Patientia 2 · 4.42/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 2 · 1.33/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 2 · 1.24/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mălignĭtas — Lewis & Short

mălignĭtas, ātis, f.malignus.

I ill-will, spite, malice, envy, malignity (not in Cic. or Cæs.).—Lit.: malignitati falsa species libertatis inest, Tac. H. 1, 1: malignitas multo veneno tincta, Sen. Vit. Beat. 18, 2: interpretantium, Plin. Ep. 5, 7, 6: humana, Tac. Or. 18: malignitas et livor, id. Agr. 41.—In plur.: malignitatum vulnera, Prud. stef. 2, 259.—

II Stinginess, niggardliness, meanness [v. malignus, II.]: ita malignitate oneravit omnes mortales mihi, Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 4; Liv. 10, 46, 15; 34, 34, 8; 39, 9, 6.—Hence,

III Transf., stingy or niggardly act: malignitatis auctores quaerendo, Liv. 5, 22, 1: accensaque ea cupiditas est malignitate patrum, id. 2, 42, 1.—

B Barrenness, unfruitfulness; of the vine, Col. 3, 10, 18.

In the wild

malignitatis Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 p22
malignitate Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 p20
malignitate Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.29
malignitatem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.11.2
malignitate Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 25.6
malignitatem Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.38.50.3

6 of 69 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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