Deigns vs Feigns - What's the difference?
deigns | feigns |
(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
(feign)
To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
To hide or conceal.
As verbs the difference between deigns and feigns
is that deigns is (deign) while feigns is (feign).deigns
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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.
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(en verb)- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- They feigned her signature on the cheque.
- He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
- Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.