Notwithstanding vs Spite - What's the difference?
notwithstanding | spite |
Nevertheless, all the same.
* 1599 , , i 4:
Although.
* 1724 , , ch. 30:
In spite of, despite.
* 2014 , Richard Rae, "
* Dr. H. More
* 1826 , , ch. 26:
* 1679 — , section 11
An instance of the word "notwithstanding", often characteristic of legalese.
* 2003 , Banesh Hoffmann, The Tyranny of Testing (page 53)
* 2004 , Trevor Carolan, Down in the Valley: Writing in British Columbia (page 107)
* 2010 , Richard Marcinko, Red Cell (page 149)
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
As prepositions the difference between notwithstanding and spite
is that notwithstanding is in spite of, despite while spite is notwithstanding; despite.As nouns the difference between notwithstanding and spite
is that notwithstanding is an instance of the word "notwithstanding", often characteristic of legalese while spite is ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.As an adverb notwithstanding
is nevertheless, all the same.As a conjunction notwithstanding
is although.As a verb spite is
to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.notwithstanding
English
Alternative forms
* noughtwithstanding (obsolete and rare)Adverb
(-)- But notwithstanding , man,
I'll do you your master what good I can;
Synonyms
* (nevertheless) all the same, nevertheless, nonethelessConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Upon which Amy had said, that notwithstanding I was angry with her and had used her so hardly for saying something about her of the same kind, yet there was an absolute necessity of securing her and removing her out of the way;
Usage notes
* The conjunction is sometimes expressed in the form notwithstanding that''''', as in "the front was nearly four miles in advance, '''notwithstanding that the men marched three abreast" (Dickens, ''Barnaby Rudge , ch. 49. See .).Preposition
(English prepositions)Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- Van Gaal’s dismissal of his ability to play a central role notwithstanding , Shinji Kagawa began playing just behind the strikers Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernández.
- Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done.
- Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye he fully comprehended all the difficulties and danger he was about to incur.
- And be it declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that an Habeas Corpus, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, may be directed and seen in any county Palatine, the Cinque Ports, or other privileged places within the Kindgom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the islands of Jersey and Guernsey; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding .
Usage notes
* Often used after its complement, the etymology of its name notwithstanding.Synonyms
* (in spite of) despite, in spite of, maugreDerived terms
* notwithstanding clause (Canada)Noun
(en noun)- It is not for nothing that our language has its ifs and buts, its yets and howevers, its neverthelesses and notwithstandings , its possiblies and probablies and perhapses, and its on-the-other-hands.
- Letters from the English usually contained very formally typed documents with lots of heretofores and whereases and notwithstandings .
- The agreements were filled with wheretofores and herebys and hereafters and notwithstandings .
spite
English
Etymology 1
From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.Noun
(en-noun)- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite .
- This is the deadly spite that angers.
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
Verb
(spit)- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.