Crossword-Solution: CONCEDES
We have 8 clues for the answer “CONCEDES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Admits as true | 1 answer |
| Allows as true | 1 answer |
| Prisoner yields? | 1 answer |
| Cries "Uncle" | 6 answers |
| Admits defeat | 7 answers |
| Throws in the towel | 7 answers |
| Admits | 17 answers |
| Yields | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONCEDES (5)
Give, give, will be its cry, till the timidity which concedes shall give place to courage, which shall resist.
XXII But this the cruel sword concedes to few, So brandished by that Saracen robust; And here, with half a leg dissevered, flew A foot, there head divided from the bust: This cleft across, and that behold him hew, From head to hips, so strong the blow and just.
The sovereign, being necessarily and incontestably above all the citizens, excites not their envy, and each of them thinks that he strips his equals of the prerogative which he concedes to the crown.
Heaven, which not oft is prodigal of its more To singers, in their song too great before; By which the hierarch of large poesy is Restrained to his once sacred benefice; Only for her the salutary awe Relaxes and stern canon of its law; To her alone concedes pluralities, In her alone to reconcile agrees The Muse, the Graces, and the Charities; To her, who can the trust so well conduct To her it gives the use, to us the usufruct.
SOCRATES: Then all mankind, beginning with Protagoras, will contend, or rather, I should say that he will allow, when he concedes that his adversary has a true opinion--Protagoras, I say, will himself allow that neither a dog nor any ordinary man is the measure of anything which he has not learned--am I not right? THEODORUS: Yes.
Quotes with CONCEDES (3)
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1973–2023).