different between maugre vs despite

English

Alternative forms

• magre [14th–19th c.]
• malgre
• mauger [14th–18th c.]
• maulgre [14th–17th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English maugre, from Anglo-Norman malgré, from mal (“bad”) + gre (“pleasure, grace”) (from Old French, from Latin gratum).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??.???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?.??/

Preposition

maugre

1. (obsolete) Notwithstanding; in spite of. [from 14th c.]

Synonyms

• despite, regardless of; see also Thesaurus:despite

Translations

Adverb

maugre (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Notwithstanding, despite everything. [14th-17th c.]

Synonyms

• even so, nonetheless, withal; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless

Noun

maugre (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Ill will; spite.

Anagrams

• Gaumer, Mauger, mauger, murage

English

Alternative forms

• despight (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French despit, from Latin d?spectum (“looking down on”), from d?spici? (“to look down, despise”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??spa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Preposition

despite

1. In spite of, notwithstanding, regardless of.

Synonyms

• in spite of, maugre; see also Thesaurus:despite

Translations

Noun

despite (countable and uncountable, plural despites)

1. (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     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,
     Of fals double tunges in the di?pite.
2. (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
3. Evil feeling; malice, spite.
   • 1874, translated by Richard Crawley, Thucydides The Peloponnesian War:

     And for these Corcyraeans—neither receive them into alliance in our despite, nor be their abettors in crime.

Derived terms

• despiteful

Verb

despite (third-person singular simple present despites, present participle despiting, simple past and past participle despited)

1. (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

   • to despite his opposites

References

• despite at OneLook Dictionary Search
• despite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• seed pit, septide