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sdeigning

sdeigning is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about sdeigning

What is sdeigning the present participle and gerund of?
Sdeigning is the present participle and gerund of sdeign.

Words near sdeigning in the dictionary

  1. SDE
  2. sdeign
  3. sdeigne
  4. sdeigned
  5. sdeignful
  6. sdeigning
  7. sdeigns
  8. sdein
  9. sdeined
  10. sdeining
  11. sdeins

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