Impart vs Deign - What's the difference?
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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)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To hold a (l) or (l).
To obtain a share of; to partake of.
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
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)- Well may he then to you his cares impart .
- Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- (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)- 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.