Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Despitefully; cruelly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete Despitefully.

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  • adverb In a despiteous manner.

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Examples

  • And then the bear cometh and is an - hungered, and the log that hangeth there on high letteth him: and he putteth away the wedge despiteously, but after the removing the wedge falleth again and hitteth him on the ear.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • Residents -- whether for the purposes unblushingly avowed by that sometime favourite of the stage, Mr. Eccles, or for the reasons less horrifying to the United Kingdom Alliance -- found themselves more at home in "Caesarea" than in "Sarnia," and the "five-pounder," as the summer tripper was despiteously called by natives, liked to go as far as he could for his money, and found St. Helier's "livelier" than

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • "If they could treat thee thus despiteously, he would surely not have made thee a good husband," reasoned the sister.

    Grisly Grisell Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • And he hath indignation thereof, and putteth away the wedge despiteously and right fiercely, and then the wedge falleth and smiteth him harder than it did before, and he striveth so long with the wedge, until his feeble head doth fail by oft smiting of the wedge, and then he falleth down upon the pricks and stakes, and slayeth himself in that wise.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

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