"despight" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene",
          "text": "In haste Duessa from her place arose,\nAnd to him running said, O prowest knight,\nThat ever Ladie to her love did chose,\nLet now abate the terror of your might,\nAnd quench the flame of furious despight,\nAnd bloudie vengeance; lo th' infernall powres,\nCovering your foe with cloud of deadly night,\nHave borne him hence to Plutoes balefull bowres.\nThe conquest yours, I yours, the shield, the glory yours.",
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          "ref": "1714, Jonathan Swift, Dennis' Invitation to Steele",
          "text": "I'll bid adieu to gravity, and drink;\nAnd, though I can't put off a woful mien,\nWill be all mirth and cheerfulness within:\nAs, in despight of a censorious race,\nI most incontinently suck my face.",
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          "ref": "1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), translation of original by Luís de Camões, Canto III, stanza 119, page 126",
          "text": "Thou, only thou, pure Love, whose cruel might\nobligeth human hearts to weal and woe,\nthou, only thou, didst wreak such foul despight,\nas though she were some foul perfidious foe.\nThy burning thirst, fierce Love, they say aright,\nmay not be quencht by saddest tears that flow;\nNay, more, thy sprite of harsh tyrannick mood\nwould see thine altars bathed with human blood.",
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        }
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        "Obsolete spelling of despite"
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      "id": "en-despight-en-noun-y1dmD3N~",
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  "word": "despight"
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene",
          "text": "In haste Duessa from her place arose,\nAnd to him running said, O prowest knight,\nThat ever Ladie to her love did chose,\nLet now abate the terror of your might,\nAnd quench the flame of furious despight,\nAnd bloudie vengeance; lo th' infernall powres,\nCovering your foe with cloud of deadly night,\nHave borne him hence to Plutoes balefull bowres.\nThe conquest yours, I yours, the shield, the glory yours.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "I'll bid adieu to gravity, and drink;\nAnd, though I can't put off a woful mien,\nWill be all mirth and cheerfulness within:\nAs, in despight of a censorious race,\nI most incontinently suck my face.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Thou, only thou, pure Love, whose cruel might\nobligeth human hearts to weal and woe,\nthou, only thou, didst wreak such foul despight,\nas though she were some foul perfidious foe.\nThy burning thirst, fierce Love, they say aright,\nmay not be quencht by saddest tears that flow;\nNay, more, thy sprite of harsh tyrannick mood\nwould see thine altars bathed with human blood.",
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