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Definition
treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- The equality between her and me was real; not the mere result of condescension on her part: so much the better — my position was all the freer.Chapter 11 (51% in)
- He had deigned an explanation, almost an apology, and I did not feel insensible to his condescension, and would not seem so.Chapter 14 (45% in)
There are no more uses of "condescending" in Jane Eyre.
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