despitous

despitous (comparative more despitous, superlative most despitous)

1. Obsolete form of despiteous.

• outpissed

despitous

1. contemptuous, haughty
2. spiteful and cruel
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     And though he hooly were and vertuous, He was to synful men nat despitous

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• despitously