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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



... said she; "you know the strange empire you have obtained over me, and, certainly, in spite of all that has passed (and Caroline turned pale) I could bear anything rather than that you should hereafter reproach me for selfish disregard of ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... drawing himself up with a look of defiance and a laugh of contempt, that caused the two men to shrink back in spite of themselves. ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne
... wee, oh! love is slee, and winna be said nay, It breaks a' chains, except its ain, but it will ha'e its way; In spite o' fate we took the gate, now happy as can be; O poverty! O poverty! we're wed in spite ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... country than any we saw in Gallipoli, in spite of its waterlogged ditches and the rain which had fallen miserably almost every day since we arrived. There is green grass up to within a few yards of the filthy mud of the front trenches; and not a hinterland of ...
— Letters from France • C. E. W. Bean
... back to us," smiled Prescott. "But we're not going to lose to-day's game, Mr. Morton, nor any other day's. Drayne's treachery has just about crazed the other fellows with anger. They'll win everything ahead of 'em, now, just for spite and disgust, ...
— The High School Captain of the Team - Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard • H. Irving Hancock


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