Both Uses of
deign
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "I can have no other opinion of your daughter's future husband," Razumihin answered firmly and with warmth, "and I don't say it simply from vulgar politeness, but because...simply because Avdotya Romanovna has of her own free will deigned to accept this man.†
Chpt 3.2deigned = did something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- The 'prophet' is right, he is right when he sets a battery across the street and blows up the innocent and the guilty without deigning to explain!†
Chpt 3.6 *deigning = doing something that one considers to be below one's dignity
Definition:
do something that one considers to be below one's dignity