despitous
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]despitous (comparative more despitous, superlative most despitous)
- Obsolete form of despiteous.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]despitous
- contemptuous, haughty
- spiteful and cruel
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- And though he hooly were and vertuous, He was to synful men nat despitous
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