deign

alentua puhekieltä To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.

He didnt even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.''

Nor would we deign him burial of his men.

He, who usually hardly deigned a glance at his infants, now lay gazing with inexpressible softness and sadness at the little sleeping face(..)

I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, receiving them from such a worthless post.