CONDONE

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


Etymology

Verb

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).

Anagrams

• endocon

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



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