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# deign

«deign» in Mova's school dictionary: **to agree to do something that you think is beneath your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (deigns, deigned, deigning)

### meaning for a pupil

To deign is to agree to do something that you think is beneath your dignity; a grand person may deign to do a small thing (old use). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deign/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a king or lord will deign to speak to a poor person; «Will you deign to buy it?» asks politely whether someone will kindly do it

### examples

- Will the queen deign to visit our school? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deign/#x1)
- He would not deign to answer such a silly question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deign/#x2)
- Deign to follow me, and you shall have a room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deign/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deign» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deign/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.