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Despite vs Without - What's the difference?

despite | without |

As prepositions the difference between despite and without

is that despite is in spite of, notwithstanding while without is outside of, beyond.

As a noun despite

is (obsolete) disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.

As a verb despite

is (obsolete) to vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

As an adverb without is

(archaic|or|literary) outside, externally.

As a conjunction without is

unless, except (introducing a clause).

despite

English

Alternative forms

* despight (obsolete)

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
  • *Bible, Ezekiel xxv. 6
  • *:all thy despite against the land of Israel
  • *1599 , (Much Ado About Nothing), by (William Shakespeare),
  • *:DON PEDRO. Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty.
  • (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
  • *:
  • *:he asked kynge Arthur yf he wold gyue hym leue to ryde after Balen and to reuenge the despyte' that he had done / Doo your best said Arthur I am right wroth said Balen I wold he were quyte of the ' despyte that he hath done to me and to my Courte
  • *Milton
  • *:a despite done against the Most High
  • Evil feeling; malice, spite.
  • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • In spite of, notwithstanding.
  • * 1592–1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet III :
  • So thou through windows of thine age shall see
    Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.
  • * 1592–1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet XIX :
  • Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,
    My love shall in my verse ever live young.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}

    Derived terms

    * despiteful

    Verb

    (despit)
  • (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
  • (Sir Walter Raleigh)

    Anagrams

    *

    without

    English

    Alternative forms

    * withoute (archaic); wythoute, wythowt (obsolete), wythowte (obsolete)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic, or, literary) outside, externally
  • * c.1600s , (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth)
  • Macbeth: There's blood upon your face
    Murderer: 'tis Banquo's then
    Macbeth: 'tis better thee without then he within.
  • * 1900 , (Ernest Dowson), Benedictio Domini , lines 13-14
  • Strange silence here: without , the sounding street
    Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire
  • * 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez) (Norton 2005, p.1100)
  • I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without .
  • Lacking something.
  • Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Outside of, beyond.
  • :
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:Without the gate / Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.
  • *(Thomas Burnet) (1635?-1715)
  • *:Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.
  • *1967 , (George Harrison),
  • *:Life goes on within you and without you.
  • Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
  • :
  • *, chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
  • *1967 , (George Harrison),
  • *:Life goes on within you and without you.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema.}}
  • Not doing or not having done something.
  • :
  • :
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  • Derived terms

    * withoutness

    Synonyms

    * lacking, outwith, with no, -less, , sans

    Antonyms

    * (outside) within * (not having) with, having, characteristic of, endowed with

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • Unless, except (introducing a clause).
  • *:
  • *:And whanne this old man had sayd thus he came to one of tho knyghtes and sayd I haue lost alle that I haue sette in the / For thou hast rulyd the ageynste me as a warryour and vsed wrong werres with vayne glory more for the pleasyr of the world than to please me / therfor thow shalt be confounded withoute thow yelde me my tresour
  • *1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin, 2006, p.264:
  • *:‘Why,’ he blurted, ‘because they say I've no right to come up like this—without we mean to marry—’
  • *1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • *:But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
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