spite of

English

Preposition

spite of

1. (obsolete) In spite of.
   • 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:

     My loue lookes freſh, and death to me ſubſcribes,
     Since ſpight of him Ile liue in this poore rime, […]

   • 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction‎^[1]:

     […] some of the rain forced its way, and Ann felt the effects of it, for she caught cold, spite of Mary's precautions.

   • 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:

     Spite 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.