Definition of "malevolency" [malevolency]

• The quality of threatening evil (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "And Somers seemed to come home like an enemy, like an enemy, with that look on his face, and that pregnant malevolency of Cornwall investing him."
• "With it came full realization of the might and the malevolency of these shadowed wilds she had battled so long."
• "I'm still marveling at the juxtaposition of these two words: "armchair", connoting casual comfort and complacency, and "terrorist" with its inherently brutal malevolency."