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Meaning of yet: Yet met her request with condescension



 
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Meaning of Assertions of ignorance | Meaning of "demand"
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Meaning of yet: Yet met her request with condescension #1 (permalink) Sun Sep 10, 2006 19:00 pm   Meaning of yet: Yet met her request with condescension		  
"I still blush at the fact that...and yet met her request to write a history of Black women in Indiana with condescension."

I'm having trouble understanding the highlighted part. Does "yet" mean "not"?
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Yet met her request with condescension #2 (permalink) Sun Sep 10, 2006 19:44 pm   Yet met her request with condescension		  
Hi cooliegirly

In your sentence I understand yet to mean nevertheless or despite this fact.

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Meaning of yet: Yet met her request with condescension #3 (permalink) Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:28 am   Meaning of yet: Yet met her request with condescension		  
Is it like "still"?
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