Spight vs Pight - What's the difference?
spight | pight |
* {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed.
, passage=Her doubtfull words made that redoubted knight Suspect her truth: yet since no' untruth he knew, Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight 475 He would not shend; but said, Deare dame I rew, That for my sake unknowne such griefe unto you grew. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1706, author=Various, title=The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony= Responses from Men, chapter=, edition=
, passage=When I found Cuckolds to Encrease apace, I Marry'd one with such an Ugly Face That one wou'd thought the Devil wou'd but grotch So foul a Figure as my Wife to touch; Yet being at a Friendly Club one Night, A Raskal came and Cuckol'd me for spight . }}
* {{quote-book, year=1768, author=Susannah Minific Gunning, title=Barford Abbey, chapter=, edition=
, passage=--Nothing did I enjoy on the road;--in spight of my endeavours, tears stream'd from my eyes incessantly;--even the fine prospects that courted attention, pass'd unnotic'd. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1789, author=Hester Lynch Piozzi, title=Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There was music; and the door being left at jar, as we call it, I watched the wretched servant who staid in the antichamber, and found that he was listening in spight of sorrow and starving. }} (obsolete) (pitch)
*1634 , , "New Heaven, New War"
*:My soul, with Christ join thou in fight;
*:Stick to the tents that He hath pight ;
*1819 , , Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 163-165
As a noun spight
is or spight can be .As a verb pight is
(obsolete) (pitch).spight
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pight
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Verb
(head)- I will
- When I have finish’d it — now! now! I’m pight ,
- Tight-footed for the deed !
