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in spite of idiom

Regardless of, in defiance of, as in They kept on in spite of their fears. [c. 1400]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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