English

Alternative forms

• magre [14th–19th c.]
• mauger [14th–18th c.]
• maulgre [14th–17th c.]

Preposition

maugre

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.

Translations

Adverb

maugre ‎(not comparable)

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

• mauger