Crossword clues for condone
condone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. (Law) 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To forgive, excuse or overlook (something).
WordNet
v. excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities" [syn: excuse]
Usage examples of "condone".
He condemned those in the antiabortion movement who condoned the murder of Dr.
He might not condone the actions of the association, but he lived in Bonita Vista, paid his dues, and bore some of the responsibility.
The phobia of defilement allows the group to condone actions such as ghettoization, purging, and killing, which assure the integrity of the boundaries between pure and impure.
Despite the fact that Enlil and Ninlil were major gods - people all over the civilized western world had prayed to them for two thousand years - was poor Mili-Shipak in fact praying to a phantom, to a societally condoned product of his imagination?
French nation, by its subsequent act, had condoned it, and formally conferred dictatorial powers on the prince-president, the principal had approved the act of his agent, and given him discretionary powers, and nothing more was to be said.
Congress, of course, can condone the wrong and validate the act, but it were better that the act should be validly done, and that there should be no wrong to condone.
Saddam assumed, perhaps only briefly, that the United States would continue to condone his pursuit of a wide range of weapons of mass destruction and his aspirations to become the dominant power in the Persian Gulf region.
As you well know, I cannot condone all these consecutive consulships, nor some of your more wolfy friends.
In many cultures, including our own, killing is condoned by the Parent.
Indeed, if international law cannot condone the invasion of Iraq to remove from power one of the most odious, aggressive, dangerous, and bloody dictators since Josef Stalin, then there is something wrong with international law.
Unitarian ministers condoned the acts of enraged Boston laborers who burned down a Catholic convent after witnesses said that Protestant girls had been kidnapped and kept in dungeons to be made into nuns.
All the way home Penny chuntered, trying to talk it through, but even when she'd come to the conclusion that Peter was suffering from his mother's death too, and was getting things out of proportion, even when she'd worked out that he was desperate for Kate to agree to the repossessed house for financial reasons, ones that she could appreciate, she still couldn't condone the placing of those purple objects.
Our adversaries, other terrorist-supporting states, and Iraq's advocates would likely be less willing to support or condone an Iraqi-sponsored terrorist campaign if they knew that Saddam's fate was sealed.
The depopulation of the Congo Free State by the Belgians, the horrible massacres of Chinese by European soldiery during the Pekin expedition, are condoned as a painful but necessary part of the civilising process of the world.
Even the Pegasus and Eridani planets limit the conditions under which suicide is condoned and proscribe certain grotesque ceremonies to insure that only the most desperate attempt it.