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Deigned vs Designed - What's the difference?

deigned | designed |

As verbs the difference between deigned and designed

is that deigned is (deign) while designed is (design).

As an adjective designed is

created according to a design.

deigned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (deign)

    • Anagrams

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    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.

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    Anagrams

    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    designed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (design)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • created according to a design

    • Derived terms

    * designedly