Lexicographical Neighbors of Despites
Literary usage of Despites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flowers of France: The Renaissance Period, from Ronsard to Saint-Amant by Villon Society, London (1907)
"But, the sun-eyes encountering of the fair, Bedazzled, I into the darkling nights
Of my despair withdraw and the despites Of my sad thought, that travaileth ..."
2. Chaucer and His England by George Gordon Coulton (1908)
"Chaucer's grandfather, in 1310, was one of sixteen citizens whose arrest the King
commanded on account of "certain outrages and despites" done to the Gascon ..."
3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... Blessings turned to blasphemies, Holy deedes to despites. Sinne is where our
Lady sate, Heaven turned is to helle, Sathan sitte where our Lord did ..."
4. Beaumont & Fletcher by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1890)
"For your most beauteous sake, how direfully, I'll handle their despites. Is this
thing one ? Be what he will Mir. Sir? De Card. Dare your malicious tongue, ..."
5. The Monthly Review (1839)
"... the scorns I shall receive, the cruel words of lawyers, the infamous taunts,
and despites, to be made a wonder and a spectacle ! ..."
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