Maugre

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈmɔː.ɡəː/
• US IPA: /ˈmÉ‘.É¡Éš/

Alternative forms

• magre 14th-19th c.
• mauger 14th-18th c.
• maulgre 14th-17th c.

Origin

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

Full definition of maugre

Preposition

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.

Adverb

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 ....

Anagrams

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