Condescends [verb]

Definition of Condescends:

stoop, humble oneself

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Sentence/Example of Condescends:

In whatever apartment (says Gould) a queen condescends to be present, she commands obedience and respect.

He is the idol of equivocal women, and condescends to patronize unpresentable gentility-mongers.

But though his language is calm and restrained, he never condescends to palter with slavery.

The august Mary condescends to cast upon you her merciful eyes.

When he condescends to the abstract, his subjects bring an appetite with them.

After all this preliminary magnificence Gibbon condescends to approach his own pedigree.

If the nymph condescends to any game at all, it is croquet, at which she is inexorably severe.

These conditions being at length fulfilled, he condescends to listen to our questions.

Pelagius,” said Totila, with an insulting smile, “your pride now condescends to become a suppliant.

Grandma and Grandpa think him perfect, and even artistic Aunty May condescends to say he is "a very nice thing."