Read full poem →Your mind, averse from all the joys of love.
Deign to be loved, and every heart subdue!
What nymph could e'er attract such crowds as you? 70
Dictionary Entry
To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
In a Sentence
“He didn't even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
even deign. deigndeign even
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Poetry examples for “deign”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Golden Divinity,
Deign to look down on me
Who so unworthily
Read full poem →"Why tread'st me down? art thou aye gravely play'd?
Thou deign'st unequal lines should thee rehearse;
Thou fight'st against me using mine own verse.
Read full poem →Bedeck'd with shining clouds of scorn;
And Thou, Inspirer, deign to brood
O'er the delighted words, and call them Very Good.
Read full poem →Its wholesome nights and tranquil days.
And would not deign to be my Wife.
‘My Wife,’ ‘my Wife,’ ah, tenderest word!
Read full poem →Of goddess Cytherea!
Yet deign, white Queen of Beauty, thy fair eyes
On our souls' sacrifice.
Read full poem →'Tis anything but thee;
Oh, deign a nobler pride to prove,
And pity if thou canst not love. _30
Read full poem →Descended the celestial nine;
O'er me methought they deign'd to shine,
And deign'd to string my lyre.
Read full poem →When the whole human race by sin had fall'n,
He deign'd to die that they might rise again,
And share with him in the sublimest skies,
Read full poem →Descended the celestial nine;
O'er me methought they deign'd to shine,
And deign'd to string my lyre.