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deˈspitefully, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a despiteful manner.
1. Contemptuously, opprobriously, insolently, shamefully. arch.
1535Coverdale Job xvi. 10 They haue..smytten me vpon the cheke despitefully. 1552Huloet, Despitefully, contemptim, opprobriose. 1611Bible Matt. v. 44 Pray for them which despitefully vse you, and persecute you. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 335 The bodies of Saul and his sonnes: which hung despightfully over the Walls of Bethsan. 1694F. Bragge Disc. Parables v. 197 Using those spiritual persons contumeliously and despitefully. 1872Yeats Growth. Comm. 260 Members of the reformed faith, to use whom despitefully was thought to be doing God a service.
2. Angrily, maliciously, cruelly; with malicious cruelty or ill-will; spitefully.
c1470Henry Wallace ii. 193 My faithfull fadyr dispitfully thai slew. 1487Barbour's Bruce xi. 608 (Camb. MS.) Full dyspitfully [Edinb. MS. dispitously] Thair fais demanit thaim rycht stratly. 1678Wanley Wond. Lit. World v. ii. §68. 471/2 His beautiful Empress, whom a young Burgundian had most despitefully mangled, cutting off both her Nose and Ears. |