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    what is the meaning of the word condascending

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    Having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority.

    condescend |?känd??send|
    verb [ no obj. ]
    show feelings of superiority; be patronizing: take care not to condescend to your reader.
    • do something in a haughty way, as though it is below one's dignity or level of importance: we'll be waiting for twenty minutes before she condescends to appear.
    DERIVATIVES
    condescendence |-?send?ns|noun( rare)
    ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘give way, defer’): from Old French condescendre, from ecclesiastical Latin condescendere, from con- ‘together’ + descendere ‘descend.’

    to assume an air of superiority. "snob".



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