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Definition of Despite

Despite

  1. Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.
  2. An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.
  3. To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
  4. In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.

Despite Quotations

Anne Frank Quote
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
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Despite Translations

despite in Afrikaans is ten spyte van
despite in Dutch is niettegenstaande, in weerwil van
despite in Finnish is huolimatta
despite in German is Verachtung, Verachtung, trotz
despite in Italian is vilipendi, nonostante
despite in Latin is odio
despite in Norwegian is nag, til tross for
despite in Portuguese is despeito
despite in Spanish is menosprecio, a pesar de
despite in Swedish is trots

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