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Spite   /spaɪt/   Listen
noun
Spite  n.  
1.
Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. "This is the deadly spite that angers."
2.
Vexation; chargrin; mortification. (R.)
In spite of, or Spite of, in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. "Continuing, spite of pain, to use a knee after it had been slightly injured." "And saved me in spite of the world, the devil, and myself." "In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse every day." See Syn. under Notwithstanding.
To owe one a spite, to entertain a mean hatred for him.
Synonyms: Pique, rancor; malevolence; grudge. Spite, Malice. Malice has more reference to the disposition, and spite to the manifestation of it in words and actions. It is, therefore, meaner than malice, thought not always more criminal. " Malice... is more frequently employed to express the dispositions of inferior minds to execute every purpose of mischief within the more limited circle of their abilities." "Consider eke, that spite availeth naught." See Pique.


verb
Spite  v. t.  (past & past part. spited; pres. part. spiting)  
1.
To be angry at; to hate. (Obs.) "The Danes, then... pagans, spited places of religion."
2.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
3.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. (R.) "Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language."





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"Spite" Quotes from Famous Books



... man was slipping from his original place in Paul's mind, like a statue built in clay too soft to support its own weight. He slipped at the chin, at the mouth, at the base of the nostril, at the eyebrow, and yet, in spite of these deflections from the original, he appeared to recover himself with an extraordinary swiftness at moments, and to be again the alert, adventurous creature of the woods and wilds his extraordinary ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray
... what the company does, but nobody else ought to, of course. Who's going to ask every Kaffir who comes to you and says: 'Buy a few stones, baas?' 'Where do you get 'em from?' Not me. They've as good a right to 'em as the company, and if I like to do a bit of honest trade I will, in spite of the miserable laws they make. Hang their laws! What are they to me? Illicit-diamond-buying! Police force, eh? A snap of the fingers ...
— A Dash from Diamond City • George Manville Fenn
... thought Durtal, "in spite of the discrepancies in some of its texts, the cathedral ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... baked of different clay than we are. In the matter of artistic endowment, too, what wonderful discoveries do we constantly make among poor children, even among children that come from the lowest dregs of society! What fine fancy, what prompt response to the appeal of the beautiful, in spite of ...
— The Essentials of Spirituality • Felix Adler
... My views, in spite of doubt and sneer, I hold with stout persistence, Inferring from the devils here, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke


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