The Only Use
malignant
in
The Scarlet Letter
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- Or might it suffice him that every wholesome growth should be converted into something deleterious and malignant at his touch?†
p. 162.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(malignant) harmful or evil
in medicine: harmful growth as with a cancerous tumor - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)