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spite
English
Alternative forms
- spight (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: sp?t, IPA(key): /spa?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Etymology 1
From a shortening of Middle English despit, from Old French despit (whence despite), from Latin d?spectum (“looking down on”), from Latin d?spici? (“to look down, despise”). Compare also Dutch spijt.
Noun
spite (usually uncountable, plural spites)
- Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice
- Synonyms: grudge, rancor.
- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite.
- 2014, Emivita, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil
- sex with older men was a way to both internalize my spite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.
- Out of spite, 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.
- (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
Translations
Verb
spite (third-person singular simple present spites, present participle spiting, simple past and past participle spited)
- (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
- The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.
- (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
Related terms
- spiteful
- in spite of
- despite
Translations
See also
- malignant
- malicious
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Preposition
spite
- Notwithstanding; despite.
Anagrams
- IP set, piets, piste, septi-, stipe
Esperanto
Etymology
From English spite.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?spi.te/
Adverb
spite
- in spite of
- defiantly
Usage notes
Often used with the accusative or with the preposition al.
Derived terms
- spit
- spiti
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?i.t?/
Adjective
spite
- inflection of spity:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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virulence
English
Etymology
From Middle French virulence, from Late Latin virulentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v??j?l?ns/, /?v???l?ns/
Noun
virulence (countable and uncountable, plural virulences)
- The state of being virulent.
- A measure of how virulent a thing is.
Derived terms
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