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
Was not grace, before everything else, the condonation of sin?
From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)
She condoned Lotty's loose way of talking of heaven, because in such a place, on such a morning, condonation was in the very air.
From The Enchanted April by Elizabeth
The condonation and applause of that outrage was taken as sure evidence of a barbaric state of opinion, the natural accompaniment of slavery.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
