condonation

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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

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

Limitations To Right of Action.—The right to obtain a separation is extinguished by condonation, express or tacit.

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