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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (intransitive) To come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).
- (intransitive) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down (to someone).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To consent, agree.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To come down.
Esimerkit
- Spain's mighty monarch[...]/ In gracious clemency, does condescend / On these conditions, to become your friend.
- Fanny and little Harriet he seldom condescended to notice; but Mary Ann was something of a favourite.
- "You must know," said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, "that I have no heart."
- Ermine never let any one be condescending to her, and conducted the conversation with her usual graceful good breeding.
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
- Can they think me so broken, so debased / With corporal servitude, that my mind ever / Will condescend to such absurd commands?
- "This is the pay I get for condescending to let you go with me."
- The duchess condescended to attend the party, even though she felt that it was below her station in life.
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