Meanings
- obsoleteIn 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, recto2 more examples
[…] 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 FictionSpite of brown-stone trimmings, plate-glass and mosaic vestibule floors, the water does not rise in summer to the second story, while the beer flows unchecked to the all-night picnics on the roof.
1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Awakening”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 19
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