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condescendence

in Scottish civil procedure, that part of either a summons or an initial writ that sets out the facts founded on.
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However, the reader digressed and asked writers and intellectuals to show some "condescendence" and to write about the misery of Arab people instead of writing about their own misery whenever they fail to read the paper or sip their coffee.
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Sobolev considers the scholarly literature on Hopkins with great care and strives to deal fairly with his predecessors, while deprecating "several secular critics" who, taking what they understand as Hopkins' "orthodoxy" for granted, "think that this gives them the right to perceive him with condescendence, to consider him one of those who are detached from 'real life', whatever this mysterious collocation means" (24).
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