Despite

/dɪˈspaɪt/ · preposition

Meaning

In spite of, not with standing..

Definitions by Sense

1. In spite of, not with standing.
2. (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
3. (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
4. Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.
5. (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

Example Sentences

Despite being a near-mirror image my of right, my left hand is terrible at these stuff.

So thou through windowes of thine age ſhalt ſee, Diſpight of wrinkles this thy goulden time.

Yet doe thy worſt old Time diſpight thy wrong, My loue ſhall in my verſe euer liue young.

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.

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.

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.

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,

Thou waſt euer an obſtinate heretique in the deſpight of Beautie.

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• despight
• despites
• despiting
• despited

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