disdainous

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

disdainous (comparative more disdainous, superlative most disdainous)

  1. (obsolete) disdainful
    • a. 1556 (date written), Hugh Latimer, “The Second of Master Hugh Latimer’s Two Sermons of the Card.”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, […], volume I, London: […] James Duncan, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 18:
      whom thou hast lost by thy unkind words, by thy scorns, mocks, and other disdainous words and behaviours
      The spelling has been modernized.

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