Antonyms for malice

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mal-is

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæl ɪs

Definition of malice

Origin : c.1300, "desire to hurt another," from Old French malice "ill will, spite, sinfulness, wickedness" (12c.), from Latin malitia "badness, ill will, spite," from malus "bad" (see mal-). In legal use, "wrongful intent generally" (1540s).

noun hate, vengefulness

Example sentences :

But Fortune had not yet exhausted her malice against the hapless Athenians.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

At least, release my gentle sister, and pour out all your malice on me.
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

You seem to come like my own anger, my own malice, my own—whatever it is—I don't know what it is.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

You can do that without forgiving me, if you still bear me malice.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

Now to the charges which malice and misrepresentation have brought against me.
Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns

It extinguishes every dirty spark of malice and envy, which are but too apt to infest me.
Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns

It's no malice at all in him; only just he's a mighty great poltroon.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

There was the deadliness of the story: its lack of malice, even of resentment.
Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington

But don't think me the cause neither of her family's malice and resentment.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

And what is the meaning of "I did it ignorantly" but that I did it out of folly, not malice?
Extract from : « The Praise of Folly » by Desiderius Erasmus

Synonyms for malice

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