condonation
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin condōnātiō, condōnātiōnem. Equivalent to condone + -ation.
Noun
condonation (countable and uncountable, plural condonations)
- The condoning of an offence.
- 1934, Robert Graves, chapter 6, in I, Claudius, Penguin, published 1953, page 72:
- After a time it was generally assumed that he could no longer be ignorant, and that his condonation of her behaviour was a further caution to silence.
- The forgiveness of matrimonial infidelity.
- (law) A legal defense made when an accuser had forgiven or chosen to ignore an act about which they were legally complaining. Wp
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