Condescend vs Derogate - What's the difference?
condescend | derogate |
(lb) To come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).
*1665 , (John Dryden), (The Indian Emperour) , act 1, sc.2:
*:Spain's mighty monarch/ In gracious clemency, does condescend / On these conditions, to become your friend.
*1847 , (Anne Bronte),
*:Fanny and little Harriet he seldom condescended to notice; but Mary Ann was something of a favourite.
(lb) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down (to someone).
*1861 , (Charles Dickens), (Great Expectations) , Ch.29:
*:"You must know," said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, "that I have no heart."
*1880 , ,
*:Ermine never let any one be condescending to her, and conducted the conversation with her usual graceful good breeding.
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*: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.
To consent, agree.
*1671 , (John Milton), (Samson Agonistes) , lines 1134-36:
*:Can they think me so broken, so debased / With corporal servitude, that my mind ever / Will condescend to such absurd commands?
*1868 , (Horatio Alger),
*:"This is the pay I get for condescending to let you go with me."
To come down.
(obsolete) To partially repeal (a law etc.).
* Sir M. Hale
To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
* 1642 , (John Milton), An Apology for Smectymnuus :
* 1999 , Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition , p. 222:
* 2001 , Russell Cropanzano, Justice in the Workplace , vol. II, p. 104:
(ambitransitive) To take away (something (from) something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
* Sir T. More
* Burke
To remove a part, to detract (from) (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 147 (ISBN 1857150570)
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
* 1967 , "The undoing of Dodd", Time , 5 Dec 1967:
To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
* c. 1611 , (William Shakespeare), Cymbeline , II.1:
* Hazlitt
(archaic) debased
:* 1605', Dry up in her the organs of increase, / And from her '''derogate body never spring / A babe to honour her. — William Shakespeare, ''King Lear I.iv
As verbs the difference between condescend and derogate
is that condescend is (lb) to come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something) while derogate is (obsolete|transitive) to partially repeal (a law etc).As an adjective derogate is
(archaic) debased.condescend
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(en verb)Agnes Grey, Ch.5:
Clever Woman of the Family, Ch.7:
Struggling Upward, Ch.3:
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * In sense “to talk down”, the derived participial adjective condescending (and corresponding adverb condescendingly) are more common than the verb itself.Synonyms
* (come down from superior position) acquiesce, deign, stoop, vouchsafe * patronize, put on airs * (consent) yield * (come down) descendExternal links
* *derogate
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- By several contrary customs, many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated .
- I never thought the human frailty of erring in cases of religion, infamy to a state, no more than to a council: it had therefore been neither civil nor christianly, to derogate the honour of the state for that cause [...].
- When the need for self-affirmation is satisfied through other means, one is less compelled to derogate members of negatively setereotyped groups.
- Bandura (1990) gave a related example of gas chamber operators in Nazi prison camps, who found it necessary to derogate and dehumanize their victims rather than become overwhelmed by distress.
- Anything that should derogate , minish, or hurt his glory and his name.
- It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity.
- In doing so she had derogated from her dignity and committed herself.
- God does not have the attributes of a Christian Providence, for it would derogate from His perfection to think about anything except what is perfect, i.e. Himself.
- The six-member Committee on Standards and Conduct unanimously recommended that the Senate censure the Connecticut Democrat for behavior that is "contrary to good morals, derogates from the public trust expected of a Senator, and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
- CLOTEN. Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in't?
- SECOND LORD. You cannot derogate , my lord.
- Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?
