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maugre

adverb /ˈmɔː.ɡə/

  1. Notwithstanding, despite everything.

    obsolete

    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 […]

Where it comes from

From Middle English maugre, from Anglo-Norman malgré, from mal (“bad”) + gre (“pleasure, grace”) (from Old French, from Latin gratum).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry maugre (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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