Definition of Spights

1. spight [v] - See also: spight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spights

spiffying
spiflicate
spiflicated
spiflicates
spiflicating
spiflication
spifs
spigelian
spigelian hernia
spigger
spiggers
spight
spighted
spightful
spighting
spights (current term)
spignel
spignels
spignet
spignets
spigot
spigots
spigurnel
spigurnels
spik
spike
spike and wave complex
spike arrester
spike heath
spike heel

Literary usage of Spights

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Etymologicon Magnum, Or Universal Etymological Dictionary, on a New Plan by Walter Whiter (1800)
"Dromio. O for my beads! I cross me for a sinner. " This is the fairyland; O, spight of spights! " We talk with Goblins, OWLS, ..."

2. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare (2001)
"14. spights] Spight Gild.-Evans. 9. robb'rie] Ben.-Evans, Wynd., STAUNTON (Athenaeum, January 3, 1874, p. 21) finds "the correctness of the eighth line ..."

3. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition by William Law, Charles Bigg (1899)
"... it is but humour, and temper, or interest, or such a love as Publicans and Heathens practise. 1 All particular envies and spights, ..."

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