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malum — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • apple noun A round, firm fruit with red, green, or yellow skin and crisp white flesh, grown on trees.
  • evil adjective Deeply immoral and cruel; deliberately intending to cause harm.

Senses

malum is used for these senses in English:

  • apple A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree. [from 15th c.]
  • evil Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

evil — full definition

  1. adjective Deeply immoral and cruel; deliberately intending to cause harm.
  2. adjective Unpleasant or unlucky, in a milder, informal sense.
  3. noun Moral wickedness, or the force believed to cause suffering and wrongdoing in the world.

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