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/kənsˈid/ 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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Concede" Quotes from Famous Books

... "we concede that Monsieur de Lepany is sublime; we recognise with admiration that he is eloquent; but we submit that he ...

— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

... by prelusive illness, but for my remembrance of what both my uncle and myself had seen, so long before, in the thunderstorm; while John, willing enough to attribute its recurrence to that cause, found it impossible to concede that he was anything but well when crossing the moor. I thought, however, that excitement, fatigue, and lack of food, might have something to do with it, and with his illness too; while, if he was in a state to ...

— The Flight of the Shadow • George MacDonald

... Grace, looking helplessly at Sylvia. "Oh, no, that sort of thing is sheer effrontery, you know! It's rotten bad taste; it's no worse, of course—but it's bad taste. I don't care what privileges we concede to Marion, we're not going to concede this—unless she puts on trousers for good. It's all very well for her to talk her plain kennel talk, and call spades by their technical names, and smoke all over people's ...

— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

... harmony with his environment. This harmony is always something of a compromise. We postulate conformity between Nature and one of our ideals. We usually desire more than we can get, but insist on all that Nature can concede. ...

— Pragmatism • D.L. Murray

... me the Flemish steed My brother Verlett gave to me, What time his sister did concede Her dainty hand to hear me plead! Poor soul! she's mouldering by the ...

— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend

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