condonation
Example Sentences
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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
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
I do not think that we asked ourselves questions about approval or disapproval, condemnation or condonation.
From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony
It used to seem some condonation of these sad evils to say that the suppression of the monasteries was brought because of the evil lives of the monks.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
