malfaisance

French

Etymology

From the Old French verb malfaire, from Latin malefaciō, from male (“badly, wrong”) + faciō (“to do”)

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

malfaisance f (plural malfaisances)

(literary) wrongdoing

Further reading

“malfaisance” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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