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Definition of Condescends
1. condescend [v] - See also: condescend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Condescends
Literary usage of Condescends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The pious emperor condescends to relate, without a blush and without a smile,
the voyage of the goddess from the shores of Pergamus to the mouth of the ..."
2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"The Pope condescends to Falsehood. if possible, to allay the storm. He was not
ashamed to stoop to falsehood—but falsehood too awk- ..."
3. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by J(ohn) Payne Collier (1866)
"In conclusion, he makes a sort of apology to the learned, and even condescends
to entreat the " patience of women " for the attacks he had made upon them. ..."
4. The Modern Philosopher; Or Terrible Tractoration: In Four Cantos, Most by Thomas Green Fessenden (1806)
"... whose tythes amount to three or four thousand, which he often most graciously
condescends to bestow in running the race of—not a Christian, but, ..."
5. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1898)
"is love, and who condescends to enter into the most intimate relations with
greatly erring men for their highest good. ..."
6. Expository notes, with practical observations, on the New Testament by William Burkitt (1832)
"... as by circumcision he had done into the society of Jews ; as a king condescends
sometimes to be made a freeman of a city or corporation. 2. ..."
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