Both Uses of
malignant
in
Frankenstein
- I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.†
Chpt 20
- But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.†
Chpt 24 *
Definition:
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(malignant) harmful or evil
or in medicine: characterized by progressive and uncontrolled harmful growth -- especially of a tumor