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What does deign mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word deign? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
  2. (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.
  3. (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
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In fact, the administration doesn't even deign to tell us the results, normally.
O powerful god, he cried, thou who holdest empire over the waves, deign to hearken to an unfortunate man!
No respectable journalist will consider that a story, or deign to cover it.
Now all that is missing is for the Emperor President in Prague Castle to deign to sign the Treaty but, anyway, we do seem to be making progress.
They both took quadruple bogey nines and suffered the exquisite torture that golf inflicts on all those who deign to play the game.
But few deign to explain how the construction of the millions of solar cells required to convert that energy into electricity would be financed.

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