All 3 Uses of
condescending
in
Moby Dick
- He looked at me with a sort of condescending concern and compassion,
Chpt 16-18 *condescending = as though interacting with someone beneath his position
- …and though the only homage he ever exacted, was implicit, instantaneous obedience; though he required no man to remove the shoes from his feet ere stepping upon the quarter-deck; and though there were times when, owing to peculiar circumstances connected with events hereafter to be detailed, he addressed them in unusual terms, whether of condescension or IN TERROREM, or otherwise; yet even Captain Ahab was by no means unobservant of the paramount forms and usages of the sea.†
Chpt 31-33
- Oh, my sweet cardinals! your own condescension, THAT shall bend ye to it.†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity