malfaisance

French

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French verb malfaire, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin malefaciō, from male (“badly, wrong”) + faciō (“to do”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

malfaisance f (plural malfaisances)

1. (literary) wrongdoing

Further reading

• “malfaisance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.