Definition
The quality or state of being cankered; corruption, decay, or the condition produced by canker disease.
Etymology
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ery' to 'canker', similar to how 'trickery' comes from 'trick'. Represents an alternate abstraction of the canker concept.
Kelly Says
English has lots of synonyms for the same idea—'cankery,' 'cankeredness,' 'cankerousness'—showing writers in the early modern period actively experimenting with how to name complex ideas like spreading moral corruption.
Translations
CACatalà
malícia
ma-li-sia
DADansk
ondskabs
ond-ska-bs
DEDeutsch
Bösartigkeit
bohs-ar-ti-kayt
FISuomi
pahollisuus
pah-o-lis-uus
FRFrançais
mauvaise humeur
mo-vwa-zür-moor
HUMagyar
rosszindulat
ross-zin-du-lat
IDBahasa Indonesia
kejahatan
ke-ja-ha-tan
ITItaliano
malvagità
mal-va-ghe-ta
MSBahasa Melayu
keji
ke-ji
MYမြန်မာ
ကျ Wohnungen
kyan-ba-ng
NLNederlands
kwaadaardigheid
kwaa-daar-dig-heid
PLPolski
złośliwość
zlos-li-wo-sc
PTPortuguês
maldade
mal-dah-deh
RORomână
răutate
ra-too-ate
SVSvenska
ondskans
ond-skan-s
THไทย
ความชั่วร้าย
kwan-chom-chue-rai
TRTürkçe
kötülük
ko-tyu-luk
UKУкраїнська
злоба
zlo-ba
URاردو
خبیثی
kha-bee-thee
ZUZU
ukuthula
koo-thoo-la