different between grant vs deign

English

Alternative forms

• graunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credent?re, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). More at guarantee, credit.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ænt/
• (Mid-Atlantic Accent) IPA^(key): /???nt/
• Rhymes: -ænt, -??nt

Verb

grant (third-person singular simple present grants, present participle granting, simple past and past participle granted)

1. (ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)

2. (ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

     He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Di?charge to Adam Mu?het, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged Mu?het, and con?equently Houstoun his Partner.
3. (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.

   Synonyms: concur, concede, allow

   • a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":

     The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
4. (intransitive) To assent; to consent.

Translations

Noun

grant (plural grants)

1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

4. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.

5. The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
6. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

Translations

Anagrams

• Trang

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rant]

Noun

grant m

1. grant (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon)

Derived terms

• grantový

Related terms

• See krédo

Further reading

• grant in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• grant in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• grand

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant m (feminine singular grant or granta, masculine plural grants, feminine plural grants or grantes)

1. big, large

Derived terms

Friulian

Alternative forms

• grand (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant

1. big, large

Middle French

Adjective

grant m or f (plural grans)

1. (early Middle French) Alternative form of grand

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

grant

1. neuter singular of grann

Old French

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grant or grande)

1. big, large

Declension

Descendants

• Middle French: grand
  • French: grand
• Norman: grand
• Picard: grand
• ? English: grand

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• grand (alternative spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ãnt], [??ãn]

Adjective

grant m or f (plural grandes)

1. Apocopic form of grande; great; big; large.
   • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.

     Fue el dia ?cero al alba dela man. ¬ vin?er? truenos ¬ rel?pagos ¬ nuf gr?t ?obrel m?t.

     On the morning of the third day there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.

Descendants

• Spanish: gran

Swedish

Adjective

grant

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of grann.

English

Etymology

From Middle English deignen, from Old French deignier (“consider worthy”), from Latin d?gn?, d?gn?r? (“consider worthy”), from d?gnus (“worthy”). Cognate to dignity and French daigner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophones: Dane

Verb

deign (third-person singular simple present deigns, present participle deigning, simple past and past participle deigned)

1. (intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.

   He didn't even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.

2. (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.
3. (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard and Ed[ward] Blout, plublished 1623, ?OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 21, column 1:

     Go, go, be gone, to ?aue your Ship from wrack, / Which cannot peri?h hauing thee aboarde, / Being de?tin’d to a drier death on ?hore?: / I mu?t goe ?end ?ome better Me??enger, / I fear my Iulia would not daigne my lines, / Receiuing them from ?uch a worthle??e po?t.

Related terms

• deem
• dignity

See also

• condescend
• spare
• suffer

Translations

Anagrams

• Edgin, digne, dinge, gnide, nidge