About The Word Condone
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Condone
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What's The Definition Of Condone?
[v] excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Condone: excuse Related Terms | Find terms related to Condone: abide with | accept | allow for | be big | be content with | be easy with | bear | bear with | blink at | brook | connive at | countenance | disregard | endure | forget | forgive | grin and abide | have | hear of | ignore | indulge | judge not | lean over backwards | leave unavenged | let go by | let it go | let pass | listen to reason | live with | make allowances for | not write off | obey | overlook | pardon | pass over | pocket the affront | put up with | regard with indulgence | remit | rise above | see both sides | shrug | shrug it off | stand for | stomach | submit to | suffer | suspend judgment | take | tolerate | view with indulgence | wink at | yield to See Also | forgive Condone In Webster's Dictionary \Con*done"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Condoned}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Condoning}.] [L. condonare, -donatum, to give up,
remit, forgive; con- + donare to give. See {Donate}.]
1. To pardon; to forgive.
A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned.
--W. Black.
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. --J. C.
Shairp.
2. (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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