Definition of "maugre"

maugre

/ˈmɔː.ɡə/

preposition
1. (obsolete) Notwithstanding; in spite of.
  Quotations
  He chains the Deev in the centre of the inountain, and at the suit of Merjan hastens to attack another powerful Deev named Houdkonz; but here, alas! fortune deserts him, and, maugre his talismans and enchanted arms, the gallant Tahmuras falls beneath his foe.
  1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 31
adverb
not comparable
1. (obsolete) Notwithstanding, despite everything.
  Quotations
  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 […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto xi
noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete) Ill will; spite.