deign
verb (used without object)
to think it appropriate to or in accordance with one's dignity; condescend.
is deigning
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present progressiveof deign (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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When he calls at the door of the idolized Pushkin late in the morrow, he is told by the valet that the great man is deigning to be asleep at this late hour.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Ivan Panin
