Hypertext Webster Gateway: "condone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Condone \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
condone
v : excuse or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse
someone's behavior" [syn: {excuse}]
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