condonation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Mr. Gladstone might have put it on the narrower ground that attendance at the dinner would be an explicit condonation of Disraeli's misdeeds ten years before, and a direct acceptance of his leadership henceforth.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John

Was not grace, before everything else, the condonation of sin?

From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

But the loss was a gain to memory and love; it was to her too, at last, that, in condonation of her treachery, the old things had crept back.

From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry