Definitions
In spite of something or without being prevented by it.
Word origin
The noun is derived from Middle English despit, dispit, from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”).
Used in a sentence
“Despite being a near-mirror image my of right, my left hand is terrible at these stuff.”
“So thou through windowes of thine age ſhalt ſee, Diſpight of wrinkles this thy goulden time.”
“Yet doe thy worſt old Time diſpight thy wrong, My loue ſhall in my verſe euer liue young.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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