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

A broken marriage is not repaired by an apparent condonation.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

Surely the negligence which makes such profanations possible is the offer of opportunity to Deicide, and great carelessness is cousin to condonation.

From Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer by Waite, Arthur Edward

Theology trying to lay down an absolute law sometimes encourages the extremes of asceticism, sometimes it inclines to antinomianism; and sometimes sanctions the condonation of sin in consideration of acts of humiliation.

From Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists by Froude, James Anthony