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Definition of Condescendence
1. n. Condescension.
Definition of Condescendence
1. Noun. The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors, condescension. [ the act of condescending s) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Condescendence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Condescendence
Literary usage of Condescendence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of the Court of Session: On the Basis of the Late Mr. Darling's by Charles Farquhar Shand, James Johnston Darling (1848)
"1 " The Lord Ordinary, appoints the pursuer within days to give in a condescendence
of the facts he alleges and offers to prove, in support of his action, ..."
2. Handbook of Practice in Civil Causes in the Sheriff-courts of Scotland: With by John Dove Wilson (1869)
"... condescendence and defences, he pronounces an order directing those papers
... is to lodge his condescendence within six days of the date of the order, ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"Of the revised condescendence and answers. ... or condescendence and an- 4 swers
shall be lodged, the parties shall respectively * revise their ..."
4. The Forms and Procedure in Civil Causes in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland by David Johnston Macbrair (1853)
"Shall the Sheriff certify the refusal, and order a record, by condescendence and
answers, and deal with the recusant as in a question of expenses ; or shall ..."
5. Reports of Cases Tried in the Jury Court: From the Institution of the Court ...by Scotland Jury Court by Scotland Jury Court (1831)
"In the last of these cases mutual condescendence and Answers were ordered, ...
condescendence FOR RAEBURN. 1st, That in the beginning of summer 1814, ..."
6. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"The nominal raiser of a multiple- poinding who had given a condescendence of the
fund in medio, and allowed a decree to go out in favour of a claimant, ..."
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