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k | condescend |

As a letter k

is the eleventh letter of the.

As a symbol k

is symbol for potassium.

As a verb condescend is

(lb) to come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).

k

Translingual

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Letter

  • The eleventh letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) {{Letter , page=K , NATO=Kilo , Morse=–·– , Character=K , Braille=? }} * Uppercase: K * With cedilla: * With hook: * With * With acute: * With dot below: * With line below: * (kra) * (kappa) * (ka) Image:Latin K.png, Capital and lowercase versions of K , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter K.png, Uppercase and lowercase K in Fraktur

    Symbol

    (Voiceless velar plosive) (head)
  • voiceless velar plosive.
  • (label) Boltzmann's constant
    • ----

    condescend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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), Agnes Grey , Ch.5:
  • *: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 , , Clever Woman of the Family , Ch.7:
  • *: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.
  • 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), Struggling Upward , Ch.3:
  • *:"This is the pay I get for condescending to let you go with me."
  • To come down.

    • 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) descend

    Related terms

    * condescendence * condescension

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