spite
part of speech
noun (spite; uncountable); verb (spite, spites, spited, spiting); preposition phrase (in spite of)
meaning for a pupil
1) Spite is a wish to hurt, annoy or upset someone on purpose: he broke it out of spite. tree →
2) To spite someone is to do something just to annoy or upset them. tree →
3) In spite of means «even though» or «without being stopped by»: we played in spite of the rain. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, "in spite of" means even though. Interpretation: God warns that if the people go on ignoring correction, worse punishments will come. Tradition reads these warnings as a call to return to God. In the primary lessons: Stories and feelings: a character who acts «out of spite» is being mean on purpose; it shows a nasty side. Everyday life: «cut off your nose to spite your face» means hurting yourself while trying to hurt someone else. Grammar: «in spite of» and «despite» join two ideas that seem opposite.
examples
- And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me; (Torah LEV.26.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- In spite of the numerous works written on Hebrew orthography since the beginning of the tenth century, there is not one which may be considered as really based on the Hebrew. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- She hid my pencil case out of spite. tree →
- In spite of the rain, we went to the beach. tree →
- He refused to help just to spite his brother. tree →
- Don't let spite ruin your friendship. tree →
- We won in spite of having only ten players. tree →
- Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. tree →
- The witch laughed with spite. tree →
- Our Mayblossom will be happy in spite of her predictions.’ tree →
note
Uncountable noun. «In spite of» is three words; «despite» is one word and has no «of» (despite the rain, not despite of). Adjective: spiteful (mean on purpose).
In the corpora
- And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me;
- Aristotle said courage is doing the right thing in spite of fear.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «spite» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.