maleficence

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Realtors value honesty, justice, beneficence and non-maleficence, responsibility, respect for persons, loyalty, and compassion.

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  1. noun The doing of evil or harm; mischief.
  2. noun Harmful or evil nature or quality.

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  • Realtors value honesty, justice, beneficence and non-maleficence, responsibility, respect for persons, loyalty, and compassion. —  Rain City Guide
  • The protection of the consumer was regulated through the principle of non-maleficence
  • We must transform it into beneficence, and its opposite into the idea of maleficence. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
  • And everybody read and compared, what nobody will now do; theme, and treatment of theme, being both now so heartily indifferent to us Who the Perpetrator of this Parisian maleficence was, remained dark;--and would not be worth inquiring into at all, except for two reasons intrinsically trifling, but not quite without interest to readers of our time. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19
  • His unalloyed maleficence is adorned with a thousand graces of manner. —  Robert Louis Stevenson
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  1. Latin maleficentia, from maleficus, malefic; see malefic.

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  1. Formerly also maleficience; = French malfaisance (later English malfeasance) = Spanish maleficencia, from Latin maleficentia, an evil-doing, from maleficen(t-)s, maleficus, evil-doing: see maleficent.
 

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/məˈlɛfɪsəns/
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