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

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

Limitations to Right of Action.—Collusion, connivance, condonation or recrimination extinguishes the right to a divorce.

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

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