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Definition
to yield or admit — usually after dispute
- I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.Chapter 8 (45% in)
- It had been his own idea to wear that touch of powder, and I had conceded the powder after overcoming the shorts.Chapter 40 (84% in)
- Mr. Wopsle, conceding his fin with a gracious dignity, was immediately shoved into a dusty corner, while everybody danced a hornpipe; and from that corner, surveying the public with a discontented eye, became aware of me.Chapter 47 (45% in)
There are no more uses of "concede" in Great Expectations.
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