sdeign
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Etymology
From Italian sdegnare, aphetic form of disdegnare; later also taken as a shortening of disdain.
Verb
sdeign (third-person singular simple present sdeigns, present participle sdeigning, simple past and past participle sdeigned)
- (obsolete) To disdain. [16th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye
They sdeigned such lascivious disport,
And loath'd the loose demeanure of that wanton sort.
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