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treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- I had been preparing for them ever since the previous day, but I had not expected such condescension, such high-official courtesy.2.4 — Part 2 Chapter 4 (11% in)
- You will scream at me (that is, if you condescend to do so) that no one is touching my free will, that all they are concerned with is that my will should of itself, of its own free will, coincide with my own normal interests, with the laws of nature and arithmetic.1.8 — Part 1 Chapter 8 (96% in)
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