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deign verb [ deɪn ]

• do something that one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
• "she did not deign to answer the maid's question"
Origin: Middle English: from Old French degnier, from Latin dignare, dignari ‘deem worthy’, from dignus ‘worthy’.

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