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Darrain vs Deraign - What's the difference?

darrain | deraign | Related terms |

Darrain is a related term of deraign.


As verbs the difference between darrain and deraign

is that darrain is (obsolete|transitive) to make ready to fight; to arm oneself for combat while deraign is (legal|obsolete|transitive) to prove or to refute by proof, especially on threat of combat.

darrain

English

Alternative forms

* darraign * dereine, dereyne

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make ready to fight; to arm oneself for combat.
  • (obsolete) To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.

    • Related terms

    * deraign

    deraign

    English

    Alternative forms

    * darrayne * derain

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (legal, obsolete, transitive) To prove or to refute by proof, especially on threat of combat.
  • (obsolete) To engage in (battle, combat etc.).
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
  • *:Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, / Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne , / And clash their shields, and shake their swords on hy [...].

    • Related terms

    * darrain

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