Condoning

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Condone \Con*done"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Condoned}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Condoning}.] [L. condonare, -donatum, to give up,
     remit, forgive; con- + donare to give. See {Donate}.]
     1. To pardon; to forgive.
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              A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned.
                                                    --W. Black.
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              It would have been magnanimous in the men then in
              power to have overlooked all these things, and,
              condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry
              of Burns.                             --J. C.
                                                    Shairp.
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     2. (Law) To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to
        forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of
        either the husband or the wife.
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