Both Uses of
condescending
in
Don Quixote
- I say so because if my lord the king, your worship's father-in-law, will not condescend to give you my lady the princess, there is nothing for it but, as your worship says, to seize her and transport her.†
Chpt 1.21-22 *
- And then, when they condescend to compose a sort of verse that was at that time in vogue in Kandy, which they call seguidillas!†
Chpt 2.37-38
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity