CONDONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does condone mean? 

• CONDONE (verb)
  The verb CONDONE has 1 sense:

1. excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with

  Familiarity information: CONDONE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDONE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they condone    ... he / she / it condones   
Past simple: condoned   
Past participle: condoned   
-ing form: condoning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

condone; excuse

Context example:

She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities

Hypernyms (to "condone" is one way to...):

forgive (stop blaming or grant forgiveness)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

condonation (a pardon by treating the offender as if the offense had not occurred)

 Context examples 

That was evidently the crime of crimes, the one offence there was no condoning nor overlooking.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Ay, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming, pede claudo, years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You have condoned a felony, and you have aided the escape of a murderer, for I cannot doubt that any money which was taken by James Wilder to aid his accomplice in his flight came from your Grace’s purse.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)