despite
English
Alternative forms
- despight (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”).
Pronunciation
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Preposition
despite
- In spite of, notwithstanding, regardless of.
- 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet III:
- So thou through windows of thine age shall see
- Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.
- 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XIX:
- Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,
- My love shall in my verse ever live young.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess[1]:
- The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
- 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions[2], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, , pages 219-257:
- Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
- 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet III:
Synonyms
- in spite of, maugre; see also Thesaurus:despite
Noun
despite (countable and uncountable, plural despites)
- (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
- (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Ezekiel xxv. 6
- all thy despite against the land of Israel
- 1599, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 1
- DON PEDRO. Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty.
- (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Ezekiel xxv. 6
- (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II::
- he asked kynge Arthur yf he wold gyue hym leue to ryde after Balen and to reuenge the despyte that he had done / Doo your best said Arthur I am right wroth said Balen I wold he were quyte of the despyte that he hath done to me and to my Courte
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- Evil feeling; malice, spite.
- (Can we date this quote?), tr. Richard Crawley, Thucydides The Peloponnesian War:
- And for these Corcyraeans--neither receive them into alliance in our despite, nor be their abettors in crime.
- (Can we date this quote?), tr. Richard Crawley, Thucydides The Peloponnesian War:
Derived terms
Translations
in spite of
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Verb
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- (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
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References
- “despite”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “despite”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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