Definitions for deign
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. condescend, deign, descendverb

   do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deignverb

   To condescend; to accept as appropriate to one's dignity.

2. deignverb

   To condescend to give; to do something.

   They didn't deign us our clothing before we were put outside.

3. Etymology: From deignen, from deignier, from dignari, present active infinitive of digno, from dignus. Cognate to dignity.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Deignverb

   To grant; to permit; to allow.

   Now Sweno, Norway’s king, craves composition;
   Nor would we deign him burial of his men,
   ’Till he disburs’d ten thousand dollars. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

2. To DEIGNverb

   To vouchsafe; to think worthy.

   Etymology: from daigner, Fr. of dignor, Latin.

   Deign to descend now lower, and relate
   What may no less perhaps avail us known. John Milton, Par. Lost.

   Oh deign to visit our forsaken seats,
   The mossy fountains, and the green retreats. Alexander Pope, Summer.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deign

   To deign means to do something that one considers beneath their dignity, often showing a sense of superiority, or to condescend to give or grant something. It is often used in the context of someone who considers themselves of high status consenting to do something they usually wouldn't because it's seen as too "common" or "lowly" for them.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Deignverb

   to esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain

2. Deignverb

   to condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant

3. Deignverb

   to think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive

4. Etymology: [OE. deinen, deignen, OF. degner, deigner, daigner, F. daigner, fr. L. dignari to deem worthy, deign, fr. dignus worthy; akin to decere to be fitting. See Decent, and cf. Dainty, Dignity, Condign, Disdain.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Deign

   dān, v.i. to condescend.—v.t. to give: to allow: (obs.) to favour. [Fr. daigner—L. dignāri, to think worthy—dignus, worthy.]

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Anagrams for deign »

1. dinge

2. nidge

How to pronounce deign?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of deign in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of deign in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of deign in a Sentence

1. Clarence Thomas:

   This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks, who in any way deign to think for themselves, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured, by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.

2. Clarence Thomas:

   As a black American, as far as Im concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves... and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you -- you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.

3. Clarence Thomas:

   This is a circus, it's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I am concerned, it's a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=deign
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Deign
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=deign
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deign
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=deign