Malignity

MALIGNITY

A disposition abstinately bad or malicious. Malignancy and malignity are words nearly synonymous. In some connections, malignity seems rather more pertinently applied to a radical depravity of nature; and malignancy to indications of this depravity in temper and conduct in particular instances.

Fuente: Theological Dictionary

Malignity

a disposition obstinately, bad or malicious. Malignancy and malignity are words nearly synonymous. In some connections, malignity seems rather more pertinently applied to a radical depravity of nature, and malignancy to indications of this depravity in temper and conduct in particular instances. SEE MALEVOLENCE.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Malignity

lit., “bad manner or character” (kakos, “bad,” ethos, “manner”), hence, “an evil disposition” that tends to put the worst construction on everything, “malice, malevolence, craftiness,” occurs in Rom 1:29, as the accompaniment of dolos, “guile.”

Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words