spight
/spˈaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of speight.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[…] when ſpight of comorand deuouring Time, / Th' endeuour of this preſent breath may buy: / That honour which ſhall bate his ſcythes keene edge, / And make vs heyres of all eternitie."
- "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."
- "--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."
- "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."