connivance

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Connivance in such lawlessness on the part of the government contributed largely to its overthrow in the July revolution of 1830.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

Connivance is a relaxation from slavery, not a definition of liberty.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Connivance was an ambiguous and therefore an ill-chosen word.

From The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Belloc, Hilaire

"Connivance is a thing secret and concealed, and shuns all outward signs."

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The throne of iniquity, which frames mischief by a Law; such as will promote Vice, by both Connivance, and Example; and such as will oppress all that shall be Holy, and Just, and Good.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton