disdainousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 disdeynous, from Old French desdeignos, desdaigneux (French dédaigneux).

形容詞

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.

派生語

参照

• “disdainous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.