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English
Etymology
From Middle English maugre, from Anglo-Norman malgré, from mal (“bad”) + gre (“pleasure, grace”) (from Old French, from Latin gratum).
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Preposition
maugre
- (obsolete) Notwithstanding; in spite of.
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, 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
maugre (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Notwithstanding, despite everything.
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
maugre (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Ill will; spite.
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