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Reigned vs Deigned - What's the difference?

reigned | deigned |

As verbs the difference between reigned and deigned

is that reigned is (reign) while deigned is (deign).

reigned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reign)
  • * 1611, , 2 Samuel 8:15,
    • And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.[http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Kjv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1]
  • * 1952, , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:15,
    • So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and equity to all his people.[http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Rsv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1]

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    deigned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (deign)

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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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