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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
condescend/kɒndɪˈsend/
▶verb show that one feels superior.
■ do something despite regarding it as below one's dignity: he condescended to see me at my hotel.
– derivatives
condescending adjective,
condescendingly adverb,
condescension noun.
condescending adjective,
condescendingly adverb,
condescension noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘give way, defer’): from OFr. condescendre, from eccles. L. condescendere, from con- ‘together’ + descendere ‘descend’.
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