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/kənsˈidɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Concede v. t. (past & past part. conceded; pres. part. conceding)

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

To admit to be true; to acknowledge. "We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms."

Synonyms: To grant; allow; admit; yield; surrender.

Concede v. i. To yield or make concession. "I wished you to concede to America, at a time when she prayed concession at our feet."

noun

conceding n. The act of conceding or yielding.

Synonyms: concession, yielding.

adjective

conceding adj. Signifying a concession. (prenominal)

Synonyms: concessive.

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Etymology of 'Conceding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conceding" Quotes from Famous Books

... losing her husband and victim, Meg repented and swore to mend her ways, conceding even Watty's stipulation to keep ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various

... intemperate spirit. He knew how to ask and obtain, to profit by all the circumstances, to utilize all the resources better even than the professional diplomats. In asking he always had the air of offering, and, obtaining, he appeared to be conceding something. He had at the same time a supreme ability to obtain the maximum force with the minimum of means and a mobility ...

— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti

... inevitably. Let us stand for the larger liberty which is joyously free to take advantage of everything Nature may offer for true well-being. There is a partial liberty which tries to realize itself by denying various realities as real; there is a higher liberty which really realizes itself by conceding such realities as real and by using or disusing them as occasion may require in the interest of the self at its best. I hold this to be true wisdom: to take advantage of everything which evidently ...

— Mastery of Self • Frank Channing Haddock

... worked on light, heat, etc. We cannot understand the beginning and the end of motion, we cannot understand causation. Probably when Tyndall's thoughts came slowly and he was fatigued he said—"Well, a good cup of coffee will make me think faster." In conceding this practical connection between mind and body, every "spiritualist" philosopher gives away his case whenever ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

... hands, and clean the range and furnace. At the head of the police, a woman could direct her forces and keep order without ever using a baton or a pistol in her own hands. "The elements of sovereignty," says Blackstone, "are three: wisdom, goodness, and power." Conceding to woman wisdom and goodness, as they are not strictly masculine virtues, and substituting moral power for physical force, we have the necessary elements of government for most of life's emergencies. Women ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

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