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sdein

sdein 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 sdein

third-person singular presentsdeins
present participlesdeining
past participlesdeined
pastsdeined

Questions about sdein

What is sdein the alternative form of?
Sdein is the alternative form of sdeign.

Words near sdein in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sdein (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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