excuse, condone
(verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; “excuse someone’s behavior”; “She condoned her husband’s occasional infidelities”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
condone (third-person singular simple present condones, present participle condoning, simple past and past participle condoned)
(transitive) To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
(transitive) To allow, accept or permit (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
(transitive, legal) To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense).
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Source: Wiktionary
Con*done", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Condoning.] Etym: [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)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
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