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Definition of Condescended
1. condescend [v] - See also: condescend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Condescended
Literary usage of Condescended
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 (1816)
"CHVP. mercy; and condescended only to pronounce, that, for LX>>' so great a crime,
great indeed must be the satisfaction " Do you require,"' said Michael, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... have condescended rather to be in hell with Christ, than to be in heaven
without him, as one piously once spake.” —The Believer's Love to an unseen ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"He therefore intimated to the princess, that if she condescended to come on board
his ship, he was ready to receive her majesty, as he was bound to do, ..."
4. Waverley by Walter Scott (1870)
"accommodated, and on account of his high reputation for address at his weapon,
which Fergus almost condescended to envy. For the same reason she had urged ..."
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