malignity

The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.

He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter.

His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.

A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.

The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.

A group of goblins.

There was a whole malignity‡ of goblins up on the roof, but if you wanted your clacks to fly fast, you didn’t use the term out loud.

A malignity of goblins chattered loudly, some of them standing on their table.