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Spight vs Pight - What's the difference?

spight | pight |

As a noun spight

is or spight can be .

As a verb pight is

(obsolete) (pitch).

spight

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , 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. }}

    pight

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (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
  • I will
    When I have finish’d it — now! now! I’m pight ,
    Tight-footed for the deed !