Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rate, tax, or assessment.
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Examples
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Likewise discouraging to further inquiry was the condes-cension with which they were treated, because they came from a relatively undeveloped and unimportant colony world.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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His attention lay on the sun's as-cension only vaguely.
Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979
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