Adjective: concessionary
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more concessionary |
| Superlative | most concessionary |
Sample Sentences
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I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are Concessionary, not Conservative principles. [1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby (The New Generation)]
Adjectives inflected like concessionary
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English concession
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
4. Proto-Italic *-āzios
5. Latin -āriusder.
6. Middle English -arie
7. English -ary
8. English concessionary
9. From concession + -ary.