spite vs sympathy

spite

noun
  • Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice 

prep
  • Notwithstanding; despite. 

verb
  • To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart. 

  • To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. 

sympathy

noun
  • The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune. 

  • Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions. 

  • Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting. 

  • The ability to share the feelings of another. 

  • A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. 

  • Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it. 

  • An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. 

  • Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude. 

How often have the words spite and sympathy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )