sdeign

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verb

To disdain.

OriginItalian sdegnare →
First used 16th–17th c.Scrabble 8
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Meanings

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

present singular third person sdeigns · participle present sdeigning · participle past sdeigned · past sdeigned · alternative 'sdain · alternative sdein · alternative sdeigne · alternative sdayn

  1. obsoleteTo disdain.First known use 16th–17th c.

    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

Origin

  1. Italiansdegnare
  2. Englishsdeign

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

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APA

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Chicago

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