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con•de•scend

Pronunciation: (kon"du-send'), [key]
—v.i.
1. to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity.
2. to stoop or deign to do something: He would not condescend to misrepresent the facts.
3. to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior: He condescended to their intellectual level in order to be understood.
4. Obs.
a. to yield.
b. to assent.

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