deign

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To consider it appropriate or worthy to do or give (something), often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to vouchsafe.

   “Nor vvould vve deigne him buriall of his men, / Till he diſburſed, at Saint Colmes ynch, / Ten thouſand Dollars, to our generall vſe.”

2. fiil To consider it appropriate or worthy to accept or take (something).

   “Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reprove / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne.”

3. fiil Often followed by of: to consider (someone) as worthy of something; to dignify.

   “VVill you not daigne his Majeſty vvith an Anſvver?”

4. fiil To consider it appropriate or worthy to do something, often when it is seen as beneath one's dignity; to condescend, to think fit, to vouchsafe.

   “He didn’t even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.”