Crossword clues for connivance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Connivance \Con*niv"ance\, n. [Cf. F. connivence, L. conniventia.]
Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or co["o]peration.
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(Law) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it.
Syn: See Collusion.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the main modern form of connivence (q.v.).
Wiktionary
n. The process of conniving.
WordNet
n. agreement on a secret plot [syn: collusion]
(law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing [syn: secret approval, tacit consent]
Wikipedia
Connivance is the act of conniving or conspiring, especially with the knowledge of and active or passive consent to wrongdoing or a twist in truth, to make something appear as something that it is not.
A legal finding of connivance may be made when an accuser has assisted in the act about which they are complaining. In some legal jurisdictions, and for certain behaviors, it may prevent the accuser from prevailing.
For example, if someone were to entice their spouse to commit adultery, they might be blocked (or estopped) from divorcing their spouse on grounds of that adultery. See Sargent v. Sargent, Court of Chancery of New Jersey, 1920 (Held a man who had not taken active steps to prevent his wife's adultery was not entitled to divorce because he was a participator and consenter to her adultery).
Usage examples of "connivance".
As with every other connivance and scheme Antichrist believes is the product of his own creative mind, this event too has been prophesied in the infallible Word of God.
Seward, it is hoped, will wink at connivance between American citizens and the Fenian conquerors, and by another summer it is thought the dominion of the Brotherhood north of the St.
I also realize, now, that the family cook could hardly have served up a sickening cat soup to Squire Gooch without serving it to all at table, so it took some connivance to have it set only before the squire.
Perugia, Ser Niccola Tuldo, had been sent by the Pope to stir up the Siennese, in connivance with the Kaiser, to deliver up the city to the Holy Father.
The Sheik knew very well that his attempt to convert an infidel was illegal, and that his proceedings would not bear investigation, so he took care to pay a large sum to the Governor of Nablus in order to obtain his connivance.
I have always thought that this robbery could not have been effected without the connivance of the painter.
Robert Oriss had attained his position of influence without the connivance of the former regents and had been uninvolved in the coup.
The point is that the cables they had received came through your capital city, carreras, which argues post office connivance and, by inference, government knowledge.
It dealt, as did the rest of the rather obscure material I was examining, with the negligence, connivance, and ineptitude of some doctors, when presented with various classic but misleading symptoms.
And although the British shared his frustration at the totally inadequate Interpol inquiry, they didn't question its being held in camera or suggest there might have been some official connivance in the disappearance to disguise the fact that his father might not have done all or even part of what seemed to be irrefutably confirmed by what official documentation remained.
After a stormy, possibly hysterical scene, worthy of the opera, my love and I had agreed we should put some physical distance between us for a while, allowing Papa's temper to cool, and relying on letters and the connivance of the mother - who liked me, and was no less than a angel - to save our hopes, and prevent our mutually going mad.
You stand both convicted of a scandalous connivance, and it is proved by the fact of the lantern having been wilfully extinguished.
As soon as we were dressed, he came back, and addressing us both, he said, kindly: "You stand both convicted of a scandalous connivance, and it is proved by the fact of the lantern having been wilfully extinguished.
She is still subject to the connivances and intrigues of a group of older people who are reluctant to accept her as an adult They withhold information from her.
And she abetted her mistress in the connivances, and came to look upon Captain Matt as a hero for bringing excitement and love into Rosalind’s Revenge.