What is the meaning of Despite?

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

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