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Impart vs Deign - What's the difference?

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Impart is a related term of deign.


As verbs the difference between impart and deign

is that impart is to give a (l) or (l) while deign is to condescend; to accept as appropriate to one's dignity.

impart

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To give a (l) or (l).
  • To (l) the (l) of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • Well may he then to you his cares impart .
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you.
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  • To hold a (l) or (l).
  • To obtain a share of; to partake of.
  • (Munday)

    Synonyms

    * (to give a part or share) (l), (l), (l) * (to communicate knowledge of) (l), (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l)

    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.