All 7 Uses
malice
in
Circe
(Edited)
- She had been one of my sister and Perses' dearest companions, her round face lacquered with malice, but now speaking to Glaucos even she was transformed, open, ripe as a pear.
p. 51.8malice = desire to see others suffer
- She would not be able to hide her adder malice anymore. All her ugliness would be revealed.
p. 56.1
- Each of them has sworn besides that their powers came unbidden and unlooked for, from no malice, or attempted revolt.
p. 73.8
- His words carried no malice.
p. 229.2malice = threat to cause suffering
- Though perhaps that was what malice sounded like in those perfect tones.
p. 229.2
- Any other time I would have taken it for a change in the weather, but now it seemed curdled with malice.
p. 246.7malice = threatening evil
- I do not forget either my father and his kind hanging over us, bright and sharp as swords, aimed at our tearing flesh. If they do not fall on us in spite and malice, then they will fall by accident or whim.
p. 384.7 *malice = desire to see others suffer
Definitions:
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(1)
(malice) the intention or desire to see others suffer
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)