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† despitously, adv. Obs.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a ‘despitous’ manner, with despite.
1. Contemptuously, scornfully, despitefully; hence, shamefully, ignominiously.
c1320R. Brunne Medit. 615 Some dispoyle hym oute dyspetusly. c1340Cursor M. 16951 (Trin.) He..Dispitusly [earlier texts vili, vilelik] for vs was lad buffeted & beten sare. c1380Sir Ferumb. 173 Myn enymys Despyseþ me her dispytously. c1400Destr. Troy 3889 Ector..spake neuer dispituosly, ne spiset no man. 1523Q. Marg. in M. A. E. Wood Lett. R. & Illust. Ladies I. 285 They speak right plainly & dyspytwsly.
2. Angrily, sharply; cruelly, maliciously; violently.
c1340Cursor M. 5082 (Trin.) Þe coupe in to ȝoure secke put I And pursewed ȝou dispitously [Gött. And presuned ȝou ful spitusly]. c1350Will. Palerne 1137 [He] him told how despitously þe duk of þat dede him warned. 1375Barbour Bruce ii. 137 He that him in ȝhemsell had, Than warnyt hym dispitously. c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1806 (1818) Dispitously hym slough the fiers Achille. c1386― Reeve's T. 354 By the throte-bolle he caught Aleyn, And he hent him dispitously ageyn. 1398Trevisa Barth. de P.R. xiii. viii. (Tollem. MS.), Þe ryuer aros with so gret strengþe and violence, þat he all to-brake dispitously þe brigge. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. 2 He spak unto hem of theyr wykkednesse and despitously hem reproued. a1500Orol. Sap. in Anglia X. 338 Takynge me despiteslye & byndynge cruelye. |