malfaisance
French
Etymology
From the Old French verb malfaire, from Latin malefaciō, from male (“badly, wrong”) + faciō (“to do”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mal.fɛ.zɑ̃s/, /mal.fe.zɑ̃s/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
Noun
malfaisance f (plural malfaisances)
- (literary) wrongdoing
Further reading
- “malfaisance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.