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See also:spíte

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishspit, a shortening ofdespit (whencedespite), fromOld Frenchdespit, fromLatindēspectum(“looking down on”), fromLatindēspiciō(“to look down, despise”). Compare alsoDutchspijt andGermanSpiet.

Noun

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spite (usuallyuncountable,pluralspites)

  1. Ill will orhatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiablyirritate,annoy, orthwart; a want todisturb orput out another; mildmalice
    Synonyms:grudge,rancor
    He was so filled withspite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.
    They did it just forspite.
    • c.1597 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene i]:
      This is the deadlyspite that angers.
    • 1943 November –1944 February (date written; published1945 August 17),George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair],Animal Farm […], London:Secker & Warburg, publishedMay 1962,→OCLC:
      Out ofspite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
    • 2014, Emivita,By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil:
      sex with older men was a way to both internalize myspite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.
  2. (obsolete)Vexation;chagrin;mortification.
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Translations
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ill-will or hatred toward another; a desire to vex or injure
vexation, chagrin, mortification

Verb

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spite (third-person singular simple presentspites,present participlespiting,simple past and past participlespited)

  1. (transitive) To treatmaliciously; to try tohurt orthwart.
    She soon married again, tospite her ex-husband.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To beangry at; tohate.
    • 1655,Thomas Fuller,The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […],→OCLC,(please specify |book=I to XI):
      The Danes, then[…] pagans, principallyspited places of religion.
  3. (transitive) To fill with spite; tooffend; tovex.
    • a.1700 (date written),William Temple, “Some Thoughts upon Reviewing the Essay of Antient and Modern Learning”, inMiscellanea. The Third Part. […], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published1701,→OCLC,pages240–241:
      But the laſt and fatal Blow, given to that antient Learning, was in the time ofDarius, Father ofXerxes, who with the reſt of thePerſians,ſpighted at theMagi, upon the Uſurpation of the Crown by one of their Number, (that counterfeited a younger Son ofCyrus after the Death ofCambyſes,) when he came to be ſetled in that Throne, endeavour'd to aboliſh, not only their Learning and Credit, but their Language too, by changing the oldAſſyrian Characters, and introducing thoſe ofPerſia, which grew to be the common Uſe of that whole Empire.
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Translations
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to treat maliciously
to be angry at; to hate
to fill with spite

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Etymology 2

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Preposition

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spite

  1. Notwithstanding;despite.

Anagrams

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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FromEnglishspite.

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Adverb

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spite

  1. in spite of
  2. defiantly

Usage notes

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Often used with the accusative or with the prepositional.

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Old English

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Noun

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spite

  1. inflection ofspitu:
    1. nominativeplural
    2. accusativesingular/plural
    3. genitive/dativesingular

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈspi.tɛ/
  • Rhymes:-itɛ
  • Syllabification:spi‧te

Adjective

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spite

  1. inflection ofspity:
    1. neuternominative/accusative/vocativesingular
    2. nonvirilenominative/accusative/vocativeplural
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