All 8 Uses of
malevolent
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- His strength, so extraordinarily developed, was a cause of still greater malevolence: "~Malus puer robustus~," says Hobbes.†
Chpt 1.4.3 *malevolence = evilness
- Malevolence was not, perhaps, innate in him.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- He had caught the general malevolence.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- There was hardly a spectator in that crowd who had not or who did not believe that he had reason to complain of the malevolent hunchback of Notre-Dame.†
Chpt 1.6.4malevolent = evil
- It would have been a touching spectacle anywhere,—this beautiful, fresh, pure, and charming girl, who was at the same time so weak, thus hastening to the relief of so much misery, deformity, and malevolence.†
Chpt 1.6.4malevolence = evilness
- Sarcasms rained down upon the gypsy, and haughty condescension and malevolent looks.†
Chpt 2.7.1malevolent = evil
- He stirred up in the depths of his heart all his hatred, all his malevolence; and, with the cold glance of a physician who examines a patient, he recognized the fact that this malevolence was nothing but vitiated love; that love, that source of every virtue in man, turned to horrible things in the heart of a priest, and that a man constituted like himself, in making himself a priest, made himself a demon.†
Chpt 2.9.1malevolence = evilness
- He stirred up in the depths of his heart all his hatred, all his malevolence; and, with the cold glance of a physician who examines a patient, he recognized the fact that this malevolence was nothing but vitiated love; that love, that source of every virtue in man, turned to horrible things in the heart of a priest, and that a man constituted like himself, in making himself a priest, made himself a demon.†
Chpt 2.9.1
Definition:
evil
- of a person -- wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
- of a thing -- exerting an evil or harmful influence