v.
show that one feels superior.
▸do something despite regarding it as below one's dignity:
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he condescended to see me at my hotel.
Derivative
- condescending adj.
- condescendingly adv.
- condescension n.
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘give way, defer’): from OFr. condescendre, from eccles. L. condescendere, from con- ‘together’ + descendere ‘descend’.
