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Deign vs Concede - What's the difference?

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Deign is a related term of concede.


As verbs the difference between deign and concede

is that deign is to condescend; to accept as appropriate to one's dignity while concede is .

deign

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To condescend; to accept as appropriate to one's dignity.
  • He didn't even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.
  • To condescend to give; to do something.
  • * William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I scene II:
  • Nor would we deign him burial of his men.
  • * 1871 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, Heartsease, Or, The Brother's Wife (volume 2, page 189)
  • He, who usually hardly deigned a glance at his infants, now lay gazing with inexpressible softness and sadness at the little sleeping face
  • (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
  • * 1598?' , William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona , Act I, scene I, line 162-3
  • I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,receiving them from such a worthless post.

    concede

    English

    Verb

    (conced)
  • To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
  • He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.
    Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.
  • To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  • To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
  • To yield or make concession.
  • (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 2 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The visitors arrived at the Reebok Stadium boasting an impressive record of winning their last eight Premier League games there without conceding a goal.}}
  • (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
  • Synonyms

    (in sports) let in