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Concede

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as. to concede the point in question. Boyle.

2. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

3. To admit to be true; to acknowledge. We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms. Burke.

Synonyms: grant; allow; admit; yield; surrender.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To yield or make concession. I wished you to concede to America, at a time when she prayed concession at our feet. Burke.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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