disdainous

English

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Etymology

From Middle English disdeynous, from Old French desdeignos, desdaigneux (French dédaigneux).

Adjective

disdainous (comparative more disdainous, superlative most disdainous)

(obsolete) disdainful

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disdainous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)