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'sdain

'sdain is the alternative form of sdeign.

Meaning of sdeign

Verb

sdeign (third-person singular simple present sdeigns, present participle sdeigning, simple past and past participle sdeigned)

  1. (obsolete) To disdain.
    • Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye
      They sdeigned such lascivious disport,
      And loath'd the loose demeanure of that wanton sort.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of 'sdain

third-person singular present'sdains
present participle'sdaining
past participle'sdained
past'sdained

Questions about 'sdain

What is 'sdain the alternative form of?
'sdain is the alternative form of sdeign.

Words near 'sdain in the dictionary

  1. 'scused
  2. 'scuses
  3. 'scusing
  4. 'scutcheon
  5. 'scutcheons
  6. 'sdain
  7. 'sdained
  8. 'sdaining
  9. 'sdains
  10. 'sdeath
  11. 'sfar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 'sdain (page history and authors); sdeign (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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