Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Condescension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An act of condescension.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An act of
condescension .
Etymologies
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Examples
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While you are at it, perhaps you could condescent to answer the questions of the "intellectual trash" in here.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Pickle cant condescent who they were, his Agents spoke to many of them.
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878
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Meantime, on that same night, the rebel army had put themselves in motion for Gorey; and of this counter movement full and timely information had been given by a farmer at the royal headquarters; but such was the obstinate infatuation, that no officer of rank would condescent to give him a hearing.
Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822
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And truly charity is nothing else but divine love in a state of condescent, (416) so to speak, or the love of a soul to God manifested in the flesh.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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