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   condescend

   /ˌkɒndɪˈsɛnd/

   verb

   • 1. show that one feels superior; be patronizing: "take care not to condescend to your reader" Similar patronizetreat condescendinglyspeak condescendingly tospeak haughtily totalk down tolook down one's nose atlook down onput downbe snobbish toOpposite respect
   • ▪ do something in such a way as to emphasize that one clearly regards it as below one's dignity or level of importance: "he condescended to see me at my hotel" Similar deignstoopdescendlower oneselfhumble oneselfdemean oneselfdebase oneselfvouchsafethink fitsee fitdeem it worthy of oneselfconsentinformal:come down from one's high horse

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘give way, defer’): from Old French condescendre, from ecclesiastical Latin condescendere, from con- ‘together’ + descendere ‘descend’.

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