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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of conceding; concession.

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  • All I had to apprehend, was, that a daughter, so reluctantly carried off, would offer terms to her father, and would be accepted upon a mutual concedence; they to give up Solmes; she to give up me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • All I had to apprehend, was, that a daughter, so reluctantly carried off, would offer terms to her father, and would be accepted upon a mutual concedence; they to give up Solmes; she to give up me.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

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  • All I had to apprehend was that a daughter so reluctantly carried off would offer terms to her father, and would be accepted upon a mutual concedence; they to give up Solmes; she to give up me.

    Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

    December 9, 2007