0 If you condescend to do something, you agree to do something that you do not consider to be good enough for your social position:
1 to behave in a way which shows that you consider yourself to be better or more intelligent than other people:
In condescending he refuses to take his inferiors for granted, but suggests instead that their labor is something to be earned.
At the same time, historians of political thought have not condescended to deal with the political facts.
Furthermore, there is a purism in the field that is condescending toward texts that irreverently mix languages.
The pedagogical approach adopted does not shy away from these, or develop a paternalistic or condescending attitude to their difficulty.
Informing us of such an end need not be condescending.
In the competition with other fields, some condescending view by mathematicians for example vis-a-vis physicists can occasionally be noted, as partly in the last quotation.
To condescend demonstrated an easy-going flexibility of temperament, a willingness to compromise.
Condescension came primarily to signify self-promotion at another's cost; to condescend was to assert one's own superiority in a way that degraded others.
