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dispiteous, a.|dɪˈspɪtiːəs|
[A revival or continuation of the 16th c. dispiteous, variant of despiteous (q.v. for earlier instances), related to despite; but in later use analysed as f. dis- 10 + piteous.]
Pitiless, merciless.
1803W. S. Rose Amadis 82 The felon wreck'd dispiteous wrong and shame. 1818Todd, Dispiteous, malicious, furious. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVII. 638 This dispiteous and abominable tyrant. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xiv. 357 The wages he receives are as dispiteous, for he is devoured by a beast. 1865Swinburne Poems & Ball., Phædra 81 The most dispiteous out of all the gods.
Hence diˈspiteously adv.; diˈspiteousness.
1818Todd, Dispiteously, maliciously, without pity. 1861Rossetti Ital. Poets, Mazzeo di Ricco 57 Certes, it was of Love's dispiteousness That I must set my life On thee. |