Definition
| • | Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate. |
| • | An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt. |
| • | To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously. |
| • | In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices. |
