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/kəndˈoʊn/ Listen

verb

Condone v. t. (past & past part. condoned; pres. part. condoning)

To pardon; to forgive. "A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned." "It would have been magnanimous in the men then in power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns."

(Law) To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; said of either the husband or the wife.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Condone" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ramillies; at the right moment he was to clothe the head of the President with it; and—Bless thee, Bottom, how art thou translated! In that woolly panoply, if one could not allow for Cato and the balanced antitheses of the grand manner, or condone rhetoric infinitely remote from life past, present or to come—well, one would never understand Addison, or ...

— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett

... she saw Buck Thornton's teeth. But no longer in a smile. He had seemed to condone the act of old Adams as a bit of senility; the look in his eyes was one of blazing rage as this other man drew back and back ...

— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory

... question may be succinctly stated as follows: Without entering into details, it will be generally admitted that I am accurate in saying that many people condone in young men a course of conduct with regard to the other sex which is incompatible with strict morality, and that this dissoluteness is pardoned generally. Both parents and the government, in consequence of this view, may be said to wink at profligacy, and even in the last ...

— The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy

... of no infamy which that journal was not ready to condone, no offence it would not seek to justify—save and except the crime of patriotism, loyalty, avowed love of Britain. And this obscene, mad-dog policy, so difficult even to imagine at this time, was by curious devious ways identified with Socialism. ...

— The Message • Alec John Dawson

... crime, my lord, the sum I am authorised to place in your Lordship's hands, on receiving his pardon, will, I hope, condone it." ...

— Roger Willoughby - A Story of the Times of Benbow • William H. G. Kingston

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