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deigned
/deɪnd/
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What does deigned mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of deign
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IPA pronunciation
/deɪnd/
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The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life.
She added that Her Majesty had deigned to show Baron Funke beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness.
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He had deigned an explanation, almost an apology, and I did not feel insensible to his condescension, and would not seem so.
And yet I hear from those who have made trial of it, that the least atom of gravel deigned not to stir fort.
I deigned to make him no reply; and, taking up my hat, was going out to bed, when he came between me and the door.