Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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sdain .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To disdain.
Etymologies
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From Italian sdegnare, aphetic form of disdegnare; later also taken as shortening of disdain.
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Examples
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496 Yet do not sdeign to let your name be written sdeign > disdain
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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