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sdeign

sdeign verb: to disdain.

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 sdeign

third-person singular presentsdeigns
present participlesdeigning
past participlesdeigned
pastsdeigned
alternative form'sdain
alternative formsdein
alternative formsdeigne
alternative formsdayn

Origin of sdeign

From Italian sdegnare, aphetic form of disdegnare; later also taken as a shortening of disdain.

Questions about sdeign

What does sdeign mean?
Sdeign means to disdain.
What part of speech is sdeign?
Sdeign is a verb.
What is the past tense of sdeign?
The past tense of sdeign is sdeigned.

Words near sdeign in the dictionary

  1. SDCH
  2. SDCs
  3. SDD
  4. sdDNA
  5. SDE
  6. sdeign
  7. sdeigne
  8. sdeigned
  9. sdeignful
  10. sdeigning
  11. sdeigns

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