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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>''spiteful''....<br />
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Several things might untangle the apparent paradox of the name.<br />
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Words change over time: an older form of this word is ''despite-ful'', not meaning a narrow-minded bearer of malice or a person so brim-ful of bile that it starts to spill everywhere, but one who is just full of fight in a just cause. (The aircraft name "Spitfire" comes from the same root, when you think about it). <br />
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In sixteenth century Britain, "despiteful" would have meant the mood in which the country chose to fight off a Spanish invasion, ''despite'' the invaders having potentially overwhelming force; some religious believers, in this frame of mind, chose to remain Roman Catholic ''despite'' the certainty of torture and burning if they were discovered. <br />
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in this sense "spite" is the bloody-minded "sod-you" attitude that comes from knowing you are right, but also suspecting your cause is also doomed to disaster against overwhelming odds: just because they have overwhelming odds doesn't mean that they are right, nor does it oblige me to bow the knee to them. I have nothing but spite (ie, contempt) for their attitude. It's only later on that the word came to signify a malicious attitude, a curdled grievance, or a personality determined to exact a dollar's worth of retribution for a penny's worth of injury. <br />
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Perhaps the Sisters endured religious persecution in the past, withstood it, and carry the name as a proud memory of a battle won? <br />
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--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 12:26, 21 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Considering the lax standards of literacy and general credulity across the Discworld (worse than here, apparently,) Sek may have started out being ''Even-Handed''; vengeful, perhaps, but equitably so. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 20:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)</div>Old Dickens