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maugre

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See also: maugré

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English maugre, from Anglo-Norman malgré, from mal (bad) + gre (pleasure, grace) (from Old French, from Latin gratum).

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maugre

  1. (obsolete) Notwithstanding; in spite of. [from 14th c.]
    • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Skeat, The Wife of Bath's Tale:
      He saugh a mayde walkinge him biforn, / Of whiche mayde anon, maugree hir heed, / By verray force he rafte hir maydenheed;
    • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology[1], volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 31:
      He chains the Deev in the centre of the mountain, and at the suit of Merjân hastens to attack another powerful Deev named Houdkonz; but here, alas! fortune deserts him, and, maugre his talismans and enchanted arms, the gallant Tahmuras falls beneath his foe.

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Adverb

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maugre (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Notwithstanding, despite everything. [14th–17th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto xi:
      cruell Mulciber would not obay / His threatfull pride, but did the more augment / His mighty rage, and with imperious sway / Him forst (maulgre) his fiercenesse to relent, / And backe retire []

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Noun

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maugre (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Ill will; spite.

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