A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1646-1700+
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Malignancy, -cie, n. [e.m.E. (1644) disaffection, used by English Parliamentarians of their adversaries, (1601) malign or baleful character.] Applied by the Covenanters to the principles or sympathies of their adversaries; anti-Covenanting sympathy or adherence.1646 Culross 212.
That what they had found concerning malignancie in toune or land they wold … give it in 1648 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII. 180.
His great malignancie in extolling James Grahame 1649 Acts VI. ii. 145/2. 1649 Murray Kilmacolm 52.
[The minister had summoned] the Erle of Glencarne for his malignancie in the late unlawfull engadgment 1649 Brechin Presb. 13.
Especially against malignancie as being the sin which aboundeth in the provence 1650 Lamont Diary 15. 1719 Life and Death of Sharp iii.
