spite (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. līvor (jealous, rancorous feeling)2. mălĕvŏlentia (the disposition to wish ill to another)3. obtrectātio (ill-natured disparagement)4. mălignĭtas (that evil and malicious disposition in which jealousy and s. are founded5. also ŏdium may sometimes serve • spite (subs.): 1. līvor (jealous, rancorous feeling): Join: malevolentia et livor, D. Brut. in Cic. Fam. 11, 10: livor et malignitas, Suet. Cal. 34: Tac. Ov.: v. jealousy. (Appy. not used by Cic.) 2. mălĕvŏlentia (the disposition to wish ill to another): calumny and s., obtrectatio et malevolentia, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 15. Join: m. atque invidia, Sall. C. 3. 3. obtrectātio (ill-natured disparagement): v. slander. 4. mălignĭtas (that evil and malicious disposition in which jealousy and s. are founded: livor being more directly personal): s. wears a mask of frankness, malignitati falsa species libertatis inest, Tac. H. 1, 1: venomous s., m. multo tincta veneno, Sen. B. V. 18: cf. supr. (1). 5. also ŏdium may sometimes serve: v. hatred. (Simultas = feud: estranged and bitter feeling.) Phr. in s. of: no exact word or phr.: usu. expr. by verb: Hercules, in s. of all the allurements of pleasure, etc., Hercules, omnibus voluptatum illecebris contemptis, etc., Kr. (not quanquam with part as Kr.): they were slain in s. of the intercession of their fellow-citizens, *civibus nequicquam (pro iis) deprecantibus interfecti sunt: or, quum cives summo studio pro iis deprecarentur, etc.: in s. of the inferiority of his forces he gained the victory, *militum numero inferior tamen victor proelio excessit: or, quum ... esset, tamen, etc.: he retains his opinion in s. of all contrary arguments, *contemptis, neglectis, omnibus adversarii rationibus, in sua perseverat sententia (R. and A.): sometimes perh. per may serve: in s. of dangers, enemies, missiles, per pericula, per hostes, per tela, cf. Virg. Aen. 2, 358. See also although, notwithstanding.