How to pronounce“despite”in English
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Definitions of “despite”
In spite of, notwithstanding.
“Despite being a near-mirror image my of right, my left hand is terrible at these stuff.”
Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
“A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel; Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,”
Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
“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”
To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
“to despite his opposites”