Definition of evil

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Evil (n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.

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Dread :: Dread (n.) Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
Reviling :: Reviling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revil.
Malign :: Malign (a.) Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
Malengine :: Malengine (n.) Evil machination; guile; deceit.
Clandestine :: Clandestine (a.) Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage..
Prolific :: Prolific (a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil..
Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat
Wariness :: Wariness (n.) The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.
Sain :: Sain (v. t.) To sanctify; to bless so as to protect from evil influence.
Demonomania :: Demonomania (n.) A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.
Evilly :: Evilly (adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill.
Fear :: Fear (v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration..
Instigation :: Instigation (n.) The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness..
Venom :: Venom (n.) Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
Malign :: Malign (a.) To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
Mahound :: Mahound (n.) A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil..
Alas :: Alas (interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white..
Calumniate :: Calumniate (v. i.) To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.
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