Both Uses of
malevolent
in
Things Fall Apart
- It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.
p. 13.3 *malevolent = causing harmeditor's notes: "red in tooth and claw" is an often quoted expression first written by Alfred Tennyson, an English poet who was born over 200 years ago.
- But she had grown so bitter about her own chi that she could not rejoice with others over their good fortune. ... Her husband's wife took this for malevolence, as husbands' wives were wont to.
p. 79.5malevolence = malice (appearing to wish evil to others)
Definition:
evil
- of a person -- wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
- of a thing -- exerting an evil or harmful influence