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spite of

spite of preposition: in spite of.

Preposition

spite of

  1. (obsolete) In spite of.
    • My loue lookes freſh, and death to me ſubſcribes,
      Since ſpight of him Ile liue in this poore rime, […]1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 107”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature G 3, recto
    • […] some of the rain forced its way, and Ann felt the effects of it, for she caught cold, spite of Mary's precautions.1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction

Questions about spite of

What does spite of mean?
Spite of means in spite of.
What part of speech is spite of?
Spite of is a preposition.

Words near spite of in the dictionary

  1. spite
  2. spite fence
  3. spite fences
  4. spite house
  5. spite houses
  6. spite of
  7. spite wall
  8. spite walls
  9. spited
  10. spiteful
  11. spitefull

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