condonation

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Etymology[edit]

condone +‎ -ation?

Noun[edit]

condonation (countable and uncountable, plural condonations)

  1. The condoning of an offence.
    • 1934, Robert Graves, chapter 6, in I, Claudius, Penguin, published 1953, page 72:
      After a time it was generally assumed that he could no longer be ignorant, and that his condonation of her behaviour was a further caution to silence.
  2. The forgiveness of matrimonial infidelity.
  3. (law) A legal defense made when an accuser had forgiven or chosen to ignore an act about which they were legally complaining. Wp

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