condonation

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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

Connivance, collusion, condonation, recrimination, and other defences are not even mentioned therein.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various

A stern old lady told her once that such condonation of offenses was unprincipled and immoral.

From Sword and Gown A Novel by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

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