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concede

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Word definitions for concede in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concede \Con*cede"\, v. i. To yield or make concession. I wished you to concede to America, at a time when she prayed concession at our feet. --Burke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from Middle French concéder or directly from Latin concedere "give way, yield, go away, depart, retire," figuratively "agree, consent, give precedence," from com- , intensive prefix (see com- ), + cedere "to go, grant, give way" (see cede ). Related: ...

Usage examples of concede.

Court was unable to concede that a Georgia statute levying on inhabitants of the State a poll tax payment of which is made a prerequisite for voting but exempting females who do not register for voting, in any way abridged the right of male citizens to vote on account of their sex.

Blade filed the name of Thunor away for future reference, conceding that when in the land of Alb it might be as well to do as the Albians did, always within reason, of course.

Dempsey, conceded a similar allegation to be correct but did not deem it sufficient to render the trial a nullity.

Let it be also conceded that small deviations from the antecedent colouring or form would tend to make some of their ancestors escape destruction, by causing them more or less frequently to be passed over or mistaken by their persecutors.

Christian Socialists of the old Carr faction, who constitute a minority of far less than one per cent of the Socialist Party of the United States, have not only conceded the existence of an atheistic propaganda within the ranks, but have attacked it and utterly failed to suppress it.

The two men waited for an explanation but he gave none, and they stood uncomfortably for a moment, shifting their weight until Axal Foss conceded with a nod.

In August, even the Ayatollah Khomeini, who had resisted all previous pleas to end the war, was forced to concede that Iran could not fight both Iraq and the United States any longer.

Some of the practitioners were willing to concede the possibility that the ciliary muscles did, in addition, change to some extent the shape of the lens.

Some of the practitioners were willing to concede the possibility that the ciliary muscles did, in addition, change to some , extent the shape of the lens.

If the cognitivist cannot say this at the end of the day, there is no point in winning individual battles by conceding it.

And I had to concede that Audefleda was neither a frivolous little dotterel nor an overbearing young virago.

Trace conceded as he occupied himself with maneuvering the pair of dyre pulling the hackney through a congested area of the street.

Still, he conceded, where the safety of an eggling was the stake, it behooved an adult to be seven-times prudent.

National interposition, but to reach it more effectively perhaps by excluding the entire colored population from the basis of Congressional representation, until by the action of the Southern States themselves the elective franchise should be conceded to the colored population.

It was conceded that the measure was valid when enacted, since the mere cessation of hostilities did not end the war or terminate the war powers of Congress.