condescend
verb (used without object)
to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity.
had condescended
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past perfectof condescend.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Suddenly the Arabs found themselves avidly courted by people who for long had condescended to them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lucius Beebe, who had condescended to the wartime informality of a black tie, apologized: "I feel as naked as a jay bird."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Versaillese hussars making the sortie too perilous, he had condescended to stay, but at the same time assuming two masks, one for the Hôtel-de-Ville, the other for the public.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
Yes, Miss I Can must have caught Lucille in her meshes, too, for that young lady, generally so dainty in her labor preferences, had condescended to sweep the kitchen.
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Rena I. Halsey
“If your lordship had condescended to tell me that you were going abroad, and consulted me about the meeting of those little bills when they fell due, it would have been a different thing.”
From The Sapphire Cross by George Manville Fenn
