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27 April 2014
disdain
[dis-deyn, dih-steyn]
verb (used with object)
1. to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn. ‘She expressed disdain at the adulation the industry gives to beauty over talent’.
2. to think unworthy of notice, response, etc.; consider beneath oneself: to disdain replying to an insult.
noun
3. a feeling of contempt for anything regarded as unworthy; haughty contempt; scorn.
Origin:
1300–50; (v.) Middle English disdainen < Anglo-French de ( s ) deigner (see dis-1 , deign); (noun) Middle English disdeyn < Anglo-French desdai ( g ) n, derivative of the verb
Related forms
self-dis·dain, noun
un·dis·dain·ing, adjective
Synonyms
1. contemn, spurn. 3. haughtiness, arrogance. See contempt.
Antonyms
1. accept. 3. admiration.
Anagram
dad I sin
said din
Today’s aphorism
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
– William James
On this day
27 April 1904 – The Australian Labor Party wins the federal election, making Chris Watson Australia’s third prime minister. The ALP was the first such labour party in the world to win a national election.
27 April 1950 – apartheid formally commences in South Africa with the implementation of the Group Areas Act that segrated races.
27 April 1951 – birth of Paul Daniel ‘Ace’ Frehley, former lead guitarist with Kiss. Frehley’s character with the band was the ‘Spaceman’. He has since launched a solo career and formed a band called Frehley’s Comet.
27 April 1953 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450 ‘Hiring and Firing Rules for Government Employment’. The order declared homosexuality, communism and moral perversion to be national security threats and grounds for sacking a government employee or not hiring an applicant.
27 April 1994 – South Africa’s first democratic election in which citizens of all races could vote. The interim constitution is enacted. The African National Congress won the election with 62% of the vote, bringing Nelson Mandela to power. 27 April is celebrated as Freedom Day in South Africa.