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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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
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
She is not far, I am right sure--and if you but bring her in your hand to me, I will condescend to accept her as my wife, and set you free of all calumny.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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
I will condescend to inform you that I am well, that Flossy is very faithful in taking care of me, and that we are reading Bulwer's "Pelham," the stupidest of novels.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
