connivance

English

Alternative forms

• connivancy, connivence, connivency (all obsolete)

Etymology

From early 18th c., replaced earlier form connivence (late 16th c.), from Latin connīventia, from connīvēns (“winking”).

Noun

connivance (countable and uncountable, plural connivances)

1. (law) The process of conniving or conspiring.

Translations

(law) the process of conniving or conspiring

• Finnish: petoksellisuus
• French: connivence (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: connivenza (it) f, collaborazionismo (it) m
• Russian: попусти́тельство (ru) f (popustítelʹstvo), потво́рство (ru) n (potvórstvo), молчали́вое согла́сие n (molčalívoje soglásije)

Further reading

• connivance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nonvaccine