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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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Etymology of 'Condone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Condone" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the hour, she was inspired. It is the high-souled enthusiast who devotes life itself to a cause; those who practice oppression have ever most to beware of in the man or woman whose conscience will not condone a wrong. ...

— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy

... other human being for the sacrifice of millions of lives in the great war, as a ruler who might have been beneficent and wise, but attempted to destroy the liberties of mankind and to raise on their ruins an odious despotism. To forgive him and to forget his terrible transgressions would be to condone them. ...

— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish

... children for the second time at twenty-one, and again when we are grey and put all our burden on the Lord. The young talk generously of relieving the old of their burdens, but the anxious heart is to the old when they see a load on the back of the young. Let me tell you, Mr. Dishart, that I would condone many things in one-and-twenty now that I dealt hardly with at middle age. God Himself, I think, is very willing to give one-and-twenty a ...

— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie

... duly appreciating the rectitude of soul which has carried me through this trying disclosure, you will surely condone the obscurity in which I have been compelled to envelop all names ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... pledged himself and his Government to make demands of a helpless enemy inconsistent with solemn engagements on our part, on the faith of which this enemy had laid down his arms. There are few episodes in history which posterity will have less reason to condone,—a war ostensibly waged in defense of the sanctity of international engagements ending in a definite breach of one of the most sacred possible of such engagements on the part of victorious champions ...

— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes

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