condescend
verb (used without object)
to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity.
will condescend
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future tenseof condescend.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Things get more complicated with older brothers, or those dashing college seniors that every debutante hopes will condescend to come to her coming-out party.
From Time Magazine Archive
Boss Petrillo handed out copies of the contract, containing the terms under which his 138,000 members will condescend to make their first records for the U.S. public since August 1942.
From Time Magazine Archive
You will condescend, then, madame, to——" "Why, it's all arranged; I am delighted to do anything to oblige Armantine.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Charles Paul de Kock
“Not lonely for me, if you, Miss Vernon, will condescend to give me your company.”
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
You will condescend in the first place to learn to know him, and everything else will follow in time.
From Partners A Novel. by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
