Deign has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | She would not deign to consider such an offer. | |
| 2. | "Thou, who alone Troy's sorrows deign'st to hear, / and us, the gleanings of the Danaan spear, / poor world-wide wanderers and in desperate case, / has ta'en to share thy city and thy cheer, / meet thanks nor we, nor what of Dardan race / yet roams the earth, can give to recompense thy grace." | |
| 3. | "O by the gods, who know the just and true, / by faith unstained – if any such there be –, / with mercy deign such miseries to view; / pity a soul that toils with evils all undue." | |
| 4. | Tom walked past Mary, but she didn't deign to look at him. | |
| 5. | Tom passed Mary by, but she didn't deign to look at him. | |
| 6. | Who knows if my eyes will deign to read all of this once they have rested a bit? |