condonation
Example Sentences
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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
Mr. Gladstone might have put it on the narrower ground that attendance at the dinner would be an explicit condonation of Disraeli's misdeeds ten years before, and a direct acceptance of his leadership henceforth.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John
The topic was frivolous and without precedent; moreover, it was unliterary—a heinous offense, difficult of condonation.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
It used to seem some condonation of these sad evils to say that the suppression of the monasteries was brought because of the evil lives of the monks.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
