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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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"Concede" Quotes from Famous Books

... Powers for breakfast, and now I find I want to come over and do it again for tea," he said, and as I was perfectly cool, sober and in my right mind at the moment he spoke, I had to concede that his voice was the most wonderful I had ever heard, and something in me made me resent it as well as the curious veneer that had spread over my friends at his entry upon the scene. There they stood and sat, six perfectly rational, fairly moral, ...

— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess

... that when a word is so near the right one that a body can't quite tell whether it is or isn't, it's good politics to strike it out and go for the Thesaurus. That's all. Motive may stand; but you have allowed a snake to scream, and I will not concede that that ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... Government is to be maintained, its strength must not be frittered away by conceding the theory of secession. To concede secession as a right, is to make its pathway one of roses and not of thorns. I would not make its pathway so easy. If the government has any strength for its own preservation, the people demand it should be put forth in its civil and moral forces. Dealing, however, ...

— American Eloquence, Volume III. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various

... like. We are not going to be legislated off the map if we can help it. Strong as your machine is, you can't swing Gordon in against Reynolds if we concede your bare majority in the legislature and put up the right kind of a fight. And when it comes to Rankin, our candidate for attorney-general, you simply haven't another man in the party to put up against him. You'd have to run in a dummy, ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... the Duke arranged a conference of the civil and military officers of his duchy. He chuckled to see how reluctant they all were at first to concede their homage to his favourite, and how soon they fell under that favourite's influence—all save one man, the Intendant of the duchy. Philip himself was quick to see that this man, Count Carignan Damour, apprehensive for his own selfish ends, was bitterly opposed to him. But Damour was one ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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