Meaning & use
Maugre
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In spite of; notwithstanding (an archaic word).
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Maugre the harsh winter, the settlers managed to survive until spring.
He pressed on with the expedition, maugre the warnings of his guides.
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An archaic English preposition borrowed from Old French 'maugré,' literally meaning 'bad grace'; it survives today mainly in literary or historical writing.
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