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Webster 1913 Edition


Maugre

{

Mau′ger

,

Mau′gre

}
(ma̤′gẽr)
,
p
rep.
[OF.
maugré
,
malgré
, F.
malgré
. See
Mal-
,
Malice
, and
Agree
.]
In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.
[Archaic]
A man must needs love
maugre
his heed.
Chaucer.
This
mauger
all the world will I keep safe.
Shakespeare

Mau′gre

,
Verb.
T.
To defy.
[Obs.]
J. Webster.

Definition 2024


maugre

maugre

See also: maugré

English

Alternative forms

  • magre [14th–19th c.]
  • mauger [14th–18th c.]
  • maulgre [14th–17th c.]

Preposition

maugre

  1. (archaic) Notwithstanding; in spite of. [from 14th c.]
    The young student played video games all night, maugre his homework that was due the next day.

Translations

Adverb

maugre (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Notwithstanding, despite everything. [14th-17th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.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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