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Middle English
Adjective
deignous
- Alternative form of deynous
c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [Troilus and Criseyde], : Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , (please specify |book=I to V), : [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes , 1542, →OCLC:Then Troilus right wonder well withal / 'Gan for to like her meaning and her cheer, / Which somedeal deignous was […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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