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/ 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