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condescension - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- posterity: Who rescues forgotten names from the condescension of posterity?
Converse of object
- avoid: Avoiding condescension and trite characterisation, Sideways manages to be both poignant and very, very funny.
- mock: Tho while previous entrants had been treated with mocking condescension, Lakeman was treated as a serious contender.
Adjective modifier
- gracious: The law of subordination is based on God's gracious condescension to a sinful humanity in the person of his Son Jesus Christ.
- enormous: Tho he idealizes the rural petty bourgeoisie, Tolkien treats them with enormous condescension.
- great: His birth, it was a great step from God's bosom into the virgin's lap; a great condescension: 2 Cor.
- ineffable: Yet do I hymn Thine ineffable condescension, O Word!
- amused: Although I see amused condescension, which can be offensive to the modern eye, I don't detect any malice.
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