Condonation

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  • noun. The act of condoning, especially the implied forgiveness of an offense by ignoring it.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of condoning, or of pardoning a wrong act: as, the condonation of an offense.
  • noun. Specifically In law, the act or course of conduct by which a husband or a wife is held to have pardoned a matrimonial offense committed by the other, as the taking back of his wife by a husband, knowing that she has committed adultery. To have this effect, the conduct must be such as to imply intentional and voluntary remission.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of condoning or pardoning.
  • noun. Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condoning of an offence
  • noun. The forgiveness of matrimonial infidelity
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a pardon by treating the offender as if the offense had not occurred
    • Word Usage
    "No doubt, in numberless instances, condonation is possible."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    forgiveness  pardon  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Eucharist  acquittance  by-product  contradictoriness  entendre  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    excuse  
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