Usually means: Condescend to give or grant.
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  9. deign: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. deign: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deign: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deign: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deign: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. deign: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. deign: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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verb:  (intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
verb:  (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.
verb:  (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.

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