CONDESCENSION in a Sentence

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Mr. Micawber, I may remark, had taken his full share of the general bow, and had received it with infinite condescension.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONDESCENSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
condescension
 n.  act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  General," he said, "I thank you for your condescension.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  I had been preparing for them ever since the previous day, but I had not expected such condescension, such high-official courtesy.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
3  Natasha did not like the visitor's tone of condescension to childish things.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
4  There was a shade of condescension and patronage in his treatment of Berg and Vera.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XX
5  He had a feeling that it was only out of condescension or a kind of civility that this device of placing a channel was employed.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IX
6  Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
7  He told me, when I shook hands with him, that he was proud to be noticed by me, and that he really felt obliged to me for my condescension.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
8  Mr. Micawber, I may remark, had taken his full share of the general bow, and had received it with infinite condescension.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
9  "I am not expressing my own opinion of either form of culture," Sergey Ivanovitch said, holding out his glass with a smile of condescension, as to a child.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
10  Then there's the amiable condescension of the lady of the manor--the upper class manner.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
11  There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12  Brittles headed a low murmur, by which the ladies and gentlemen generally were understood to express the gratification they derived from Mr. Giles's condescension.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  "It was condescension, nevertheless," said Eustacia vehemently.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool
14  But Morrel, disappointed in his expectations of exciting fear, was conscious only of the other's condescension.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
15  We need not say that a smile of condescension was stamped upon his lips.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 104. Danglars Signature.
Example Sentence:
1  The equality between her and me was real; not the mere result of condescension on her par.