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Definition of Conceding

1. Noun. The act of conceding or yielding.

Definition of Conceding

1. Verb. (present participle of concede) ¹

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Definition of Conceding

1. concede [v] - See also: concede

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conceding

Literary usage of Conceding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Benjamin Perley Poore, United States, United States Congress. Senate (1877)
"By their Majesties Command, JOHN COLOMA, Secretary to the King and Queen. I, THE KING, I, THE QUEEN. BULL OF POPE ALEXANDER conceding AMERICA TO SPAIN. ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"conceding for the sake of the argument that there are cases in which one of the two bodies, that make together the Congress of the United States, ..."

3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"sidered otherwise than as a testimony to the close union which bound together the three communities, conceding to one of them, as if it were the renewal of ..."

4. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Benjamin Perley Poore, United States Congress. Senate (1878)
"By their Majesties Command, JOHN COLOMA, Secretary to the King and Queen. I, THE KING, I, THE QUEEN. BULL OF POPE ALEXANDER conceding AMERICA TO SPAIN. ..."

5. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"... about the manner of conceding the Charter—Other grounds of dissatisfaction.—Apprehensions lest the Church and Crown Lands should be resumed. ..."

6. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D.: Late Head-master of by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1910)
"But the Work which naturally excited most public attention was a pamphlet on " the Christian Duty of conceding the Claims of the Roman Catholics," published ..."

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