Sekirov Dictionary

despite

/dɪˈspaɪt/

preposition 1
noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

preposition1

•
even with something that could have stopped it from happening
- Despite being a near-mirror image my of right, my left hand is terrible at these stuff.

noun3

•
Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.
- And for these Corcyraeans—neither receive them into alliance in our despite, nor be their abettors in crime. — 1874
•
(no longer used) 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, — 1515
•
(no longer used) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
- a despite done against the Most High — 1667

verb1

(no longer used) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

forms

despited · despiting · despites

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