condonation

Example Sentences

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Ushers were surprisingly courteous, refused in the main the few tips offered, moved with a vicarious sanctity, hoped thereby for condonation for sins committed, planned or guarded against by a wilful ceinture de chastité.

From Time Magazine Archive

I also wondered what effect a condonation of Judge Haynsworth's actions would have on the judiciary at large.

From Time Magazine Archive

But subsequent misconduct will revive the offence as if there had been no condonation.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe

When after outrage she declines to marry her destroyer, and prefers death to the condonation of her dishonour, she strikes a note and assumes a position till then not merely unrecognised but absolutely undiscovered. 

From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by Henley, William Ernest

And yet the treachery and the deceit were so flagrant that surely no condonation was possible.

From Olive in Italy by Dalton, Moray