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Condescension or
Condescendence is a form of
incivility wherein the
speaker displays an
attitude of
patronizing superiority or contempt. Condescension...
- (Divine)
Accommodation (or
condescension) is the
theological principle that God,
while being in his
nature unknowable and unreachable, has nevertheless...
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based on a
phrase used by
Charles Spurgeon in his 1857
sermon "The
Condescension of Christ": In
calling the Hubble's
spectacular new
image of the Eagle...
- color" was
introduced in the
United States in
order to
counter the
condescension implied by the
terms "non-white" and "minority", and
racial justice...
- O'Connor
wrote that "few
artifacts of po****r
culture invite more
condescension than the made-for-television movie". Network-made
television movies...
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adjective 1 :
showing or
characterized by
condescension:
patronizing From "
condescension": Main Entry:
condescension Function: noun 1 :
voluntary descent from...
- unintentionally, as
exemplifying what E. P.
Thompson called ‘the
enormous condescension of posterity’ in action,
functionally s****ing to
erase a collection...
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commended Sean Penn for his performance: "Penn's accuracy, his lack of
condescension or sentiment, and his
willingness to
inhabit his
character without any...
- old
school friends, who are in
secure positions and
treat him with
condescension. His
aggression turns inward on to
himself and he
tries to humiliate...
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expressed in
language with
negative gender-oriented implications, such as
condescension. For example, one may
refer to a
female as a "girl"
rather than a "woman"...
