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What does deign mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
  2. (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.
  3. (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
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This is a question which his colleague for Outremont did not deign answer the other day, for obvious reasons.
Now all that is missing is for the Emperor President in Prague Castle to deign to sign the Treaty but, anyway, we do seem to be making progress.
Officials do not deign to answer to the public and show contempt for their opponents.
In all the articles maligning students of the past two decades for apathy, the media rarely deign to mention this counterexample.
No respectable journalist will consider that a story, or deign to cover it.
I think that would be a bit much to ask of it, since it did not even deign to ratify it.

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