different between depicts vs despite
depicts
English
Verb
depicts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depict
Anagrams
- discept
depicts From the web:
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- what depicts mean
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- what depicts reincarnation
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despite
English
Alternative forms
- despight (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French despit, from Latin d?spectum (“looking down on”), from d?spici? (“to look down, despise”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??spa?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Preposition
despite
- In spite of, notwithstanding, regardless of.
Synonyms
- in spite of, maugre; see also Thesaurus:despite
Translations
Noun
despite (countable and uncountable, plural despites)
- (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel;
Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,
Of fals double tunges in the di?pite.
- A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
- Evil feeling; malice, spite.
- 1874, translated by Richard Crawley, Thucydides The Peloponnesian War:
- And for these Corcyraeans—neither receive them into alliance in our despite, nor be their abettors in crime.
- 1874, translated by Richard Crawley, Thucydides The Peloponnesian War:
Derived terms
- despiteful
Verb
despite (third-person singular simple present despites, present participle despiting, simple past and past participle despited)
- (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
- to despite his opposites
References
- despite at OneLook Dictionary Search
- despite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- seed pit, septide
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- what despite means
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- despite meaning in arabic
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- what's despite in french
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- despite meaning in urdu
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