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

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

In maugre of doughty Douglas And all that ever with him be, The fattest hartes in all Cheviot, He said, to kill and bear away.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by John Gay

In this particular business he was, maugre Messer Simone's beard, paid a better price not to do what Simone paid a less price to have done.

From The God of Love by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

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

I wish the 'Packhorse' was quit of him, maugre his laced coat.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various