Both Uses of
malignant
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- 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.†
p. 170.4
- But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.†
p. 223.9 *
Definition:
harmful or evil
in medicine: harmful growth as with a cancerous tumor
in medicine: harmful growth as with a cancerous tumor