Sdeigned vs Deigned - What's the difference?
sdeigned | deigned |
(sdeign)
(obsolete) To disdain.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
*:Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye / They sdeigned such lascivious disport, / And loath'd the loose demeanure of that wanton sort. (deign)
To condescend; to accept as appropriate to one's dignity.
To condescend to give; to do something.
* William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I scene II:
* 1871 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, Heartsease, Or, The Brother's Wife (volume 2, page 189)
(obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
* 1598?' , William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona , Act I, scene I, line 162-3
As verbs the difference between sdeigned and deigned
is that sdeigned is past tense of sdeign while deigned is past tense of deign.sdeigned
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(head)sdeign
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(en verb)deigned
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*deign
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(en verb)- He didn't even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.
- Nor would we deign him burial of his men.
- He, who usually hardly deigned a glance at his infants, now lay gazing with inexpressible softness and sadness at the little sleeping face
- I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,receiving them from such a worthless post.