condonation

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I also wondered what effect a condonation of Judge Haynsworth's actions would have on the judiciary at large.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

These held a phratry council which in a body addressed itself to the other phratry, in order to prevail on the latter to assemble in council and effect a condonation of the matter.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich

A broken marriage is not repaired by an apparent condonation.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

A dramatic contest ran through this session on the part of the banks to obtain further condonation in the suspension of specie payments.

From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron