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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

... find yourself repining at the distressful circumstances in which you are placed, you may be dishonouring Him who has placed you where you are. I do not, of course, mean that such reflection will make you condone and excuse the lukewarmness of others, but you will grasp the truth that God uses even the sin of this world as an instrument in the education of His people, and that you yourself may have your character formed partly through the faults of others, ...

— Letters to His Friends • Forbes Robinson

... Charles Marriott's inexhaustible patience and charity. The pains which he would take with even the most uncongenial and unpromising men, who somehow had come in his way, and seemed thrown on his charge, the patience with which he would bear and condone their follies and even worse, were not to be told, for, indeed, few ...

— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church

... fanning herself audibly. Without the slightest ear for music, she has been plunging round the room with her husband, who is still so far infatuated as to half believe she can dance. She is an extremely pretty woman, so one can condone his idiocy. ...

— The Hoyden • Mrs. Hungerford

... right, are we," asked a rubicund-visaged man, who puffed away heartily "to smoke in the parlor? I condone that much to my wife's dislike of the weed. She makes a great ado about the ...

— Choice Readings for the Home Circle • Anonymous

... not alone to do right, and fulfill Life's due perfection by the simple worth Of lawful actions called by justice forth, And thus condone a world confused with ill! But fix the high condition of thy will To be right, that its good's spontaneous birth May spread like flowers springing from the earth On which the natural dews of heaven distill; For these require no honors, take no care For gratitude ...

— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

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