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      maleficence
      noun
      the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
      doing or causing evil
      Roots
      malemale- · Latin · badly, evilfacerefic- · Latin · doingentia-ence · Latin · quality of
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      The word maleficence breaks down into 3 roots of Latin origin: male-, from Latin male (“badly, evil”); fic, from Latin facere (“doing”); and -ence, from Latin entia (“quality of”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.

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