maugre

American  

[maw-ger] / ˈmɔ gər /

Or mauger

preposition

Archaic.

1. in spite of; notwithstanding.

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maugre British  

/ ˈmɔːɡə /

preposition

1. obsolete in spite of

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Etymology

Origin of maugre

First recorded in 1225–75; Middle English, from Middle French: literally, “spite, ill-will,” equivalent to mau- mal- + gre gree ²

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Example Sentences

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maugre

"This custom," said the knight, "have I used and will use maugre who saith nay, and who is grieved with my custom let him amend it that will."

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Erle Elsworth Clippinger

Unto the strait-barred window led my dear; No table, bed, nor plenishing; no place They had for rest: maugre two narrow chairs By day, by night they sat thereon upright.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow

I shall however send you a couple more of the thin gentry presently, maugre all your hopes and cautions.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle

Neglect on my part: which it seems she has had the wit to discover, maugre all my pains to conceal it.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

But Kingsley was too much of a poet not to feel those "last enchantments" which whispered to Arnold from Oxford towers, maugre his "strong sense of the irrationality of that period."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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