Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonconcession

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-con-ces-sion
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Absence of concession; failure or refusal to concede.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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 reception and television monitors carrying the news of Mr. Obama’s clinching of the nomination. Mr. McCain, laboring under the misapprehension that he was wittily skewering his opponent, compulsively invoked the Obama-patented mantra of “change” 33 times in his speech."

Etymology

From non- + concession.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does nonconcession mean?: Absence of concession; failure or refusal to concede.
Where does nonconcession come from?: From non- + concession.

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