Definition of Sdaine

1. to disdain [v SDAINED, SDAINING, SDAINES] - See also: disdain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sdaine

scythed
scythelike
scytheman
scythemen
scyther
scythers
scythes
scythestone
scythestones
scythewhet
scythian
scything
scytodermata
scæne
scænes
sdaine (current term)
sdained
sdaines
sdaining
sdayn
sdayned
sdayning
sdayns
sdeign
sdeigne
sdeigned
sdeignes
sdeigning
sdeigns
sdein

Literary usage of Sdaine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"1 >o she departed full of griefe and sdaine, Vhich inly did to great impatience move her: <ut Uie false maydan shortly turn'd againe "nto the prison, ..."

2. The Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser, John Wesley Hales (1893)
"So she departed full of griefe and sdaine, Which inly did to great impatience move her: But the false mayden shortly tura'd againe Unto the prison, ..."

3. The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry by John Payne Collier (1820)
"... With learning's garland crowning Poesie; 'sdaine not that our harsh plaints should beate your eares; Arts want may stop our tongues, but not our teares. ..."

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