† 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.
| c 1374 Chaucer 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. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. viii. 83 Who-so..is nouȝt dronkenlew ne dedeignous, dowel hym folweth. c 1400 Rom. Rose 7412 His looking was not disdeinous, Ne proud, but meeke, and ful pesible. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) ii. xlv. (1859) 51 Prowde men, and desdeynous, that settyn att nought al other men. 1533 Star Chamb. Proc. in Proc. Soc. Antiq. (1869) 321 With a hye and a dysdanus countynans. 1556 Aurelio & Isab. (1608) G iv, It pleasethe you more to be towardes hus disdaingieux. a 1563 Cavendish L'auctor G.C. iii, in Wolsey, etc. (1825) II. 140 Ther disdaynous dispyghts and onnaturall debates. |
2. Full of indignation; indignant.
| c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. civ. (1869) 114 Myn herte so disdeynows therof j haue, that litel lakketh it ne bresteth on tweyne. 1531 Elyot Gov. ii. xii. (1883) 150 They..began to murmure, and to cast a disdaynous and greuous loke upon Gysippus. |