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† disˈdainous, a. Obs.
Forms: α. 4 dedeignous, dedeynous; β. 5 desdeynous; γ. 5–6 dys-, disdeinous, -deynous, -daynous, 6 dysdeignous, -danus, disdainous.
[a. OF. desdeignos, -eus, -eux (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), = Pr. desdenhos, Sp. desdeñoso, It. disdegnoso (sdegnoso), a Com. Romanic adj. f. disdegno disdain n.: see -ous.]
1. Full of or showing disdain; disdainful, scornful; proud, haughty.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 1168 (1217) (MS. Gg. 4. 27), Sche..gan hire herte onfetere Out of disdaynis [v.rr. disdainys, dis-, desdaynes, disdaynous, dis-, desdayns] prisoun. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. viii. 83 Who-so..is nouȝt dronkenlew ne dedeignous, dowel hym folweth. c1400Rom. Rose 7412 His looking was not disdeinous, Ne proud, but meeke, and ful pesible. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) ii. xlv. (1859) 51 Prowde men, and desdeynous, that settyn att nought al other men. 1533Star Chamb. Proc. in Proc. Soc. Antiq. (1869) 321 With a hye and a dysdanus countynans. 1556Aurelio & Isab. (1608) G iv, It pleasethe you more to be towardes hus disdaingieux. a1563Cavendish L'auctor G.C. iii, in Wolsey, etc. (1825) II. 140 Ther disdaynous dispyghts and onnaturall debates.
2. Full of indignation; indignant.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. civ. (1869) 114 Myn herte so disdeynows therof j haue, that litel lakketh it ne bresteth on tweyne. 1531Elyot Gov. ii. xii. (1883) 150 They..began to murmure, and to cast a disdaynous and greuous loke upon Gysippus. |