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nonconcession

nonconcession noun: absence of concession; failure or refusal to concede.

Noun

nonconcession (uncountable)

  1. Absence of concession; failure or refusal to concede.
    • Yet even as the two establishment candidates huffed and puffed to assert their authority, they seemed terrified by Mr. Obama’s insurgency, as if it were the plague in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death.” Mrs. Clinton held her nonconcession speech in a Manhattan bunker, banishing cellphone...2008 June 8, Frank Rich, “One Historic Night, Two Americas”, in New York Times

Origin of nonconcession

From non- + concession.

Questions about nonconcession

What does nonconcession mean?
Nonconcession means absence of concession; failure or refusal to concede.
What part of speech is nonconcession?
Nonconcession is a noun.

Words near nonconcession in the dictionary

  1. nonconcern
  2. nonconcerned
  3. nonconcerns
  4. nonconcert
  5. nonconcerted
  6. nonconcession
  7. nonconcessionary
  8. nonconciliating
  9. nonconciliatory
  10. nonconcluding
  11. nonconclusion

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