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"word": "despite oneself"
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"text": "Despite no arrests being made, investigators maintain that the suspects are fully identified.",
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"ref": "1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 3”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:",
"text": "So thou through windowes of thine age ſhalt ſee,\nDiſpight of wrinkles this thy goulden time.",
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"ref": "1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 19”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:",
"text": "Yet doe thy worſt old Time diſpight thy wrong,\nMy loue ſhall in my verſe euer liue young.",
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"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
"text": "The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.",
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"ref": "1995, Billy Corgan (lyrics and music), “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”, in Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, performed by Smashing Pumpkins:",
"text": "Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.",
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"ref": "2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:",
"text": "Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.",
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"third-person"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "despitar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of despitar:",
"third-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"despitar",
"despitar#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "despite"
}
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"called_from": "page/2517",
"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'in spite of', 2: 'in spite of'}",
"path": [
"despite",
"trans-top-see"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "preposition",
"title": "despite",
"trace": ""
}
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