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Webster 1913 Edition
Concession
1.
The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
By mutual
concession
the business was adjusted. Hallam.
2.
A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something;
as, a
. concession
to build a canalThis is therefore a
concession
, that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. Sharp.
When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small
concessions
. Swift.
Webster 1828 Edition
Concession
CONCESSION
,Noun.
1.
The act of granting or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request from the party to whom it is made, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.The concession of these charters was in a parliamentary way.
2.
The thing yielded; as, in the treaty of peace, each power made large concessions.3.
In rhetoric or debate, the yielding, granting, or allowing to the opposite party some point or face that may bear dispute, with a view to obtain something which cannot be denied, or to show that even admitting the point conceded, the cause is not with the adverse party, but can be maintained by the advocate on other grounds.4.
Acknowledgment by way of apology; confession of a fault.