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

These held a phratry council which in a body addressed itself to the other phratry, in order to prevail on the latter to assemble in council and effect a condonation of the matter.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich

Equally delighted was his patron at having secured condonation at such a cheap rate, for what might otherwise have proved not only a costly case but a ruinous scandal.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

Connivance, collusion, condonation, recrimination, and other defences are not even mentioned therein.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various