condone
to accept or overlook (bad behaviour)
TRANSLATION
condone = stillschweigend duldend --- GOOGLE INDEX condone: approximately 10,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Cambridge University students say a British Empire theme for a ball did not mean they CONDONE racism...
(BBC News)
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"We do not CONDONE torture, nor do we ask others to do it on our behalf."
- a spokesperson for the British Prime Minister's office
(BBC News)
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"We do not CONDONE torture, nor do we ask others to do it on our behalf."
- a spokesperson for the British Prime Minister's office
Did you
know?
condone
verb
- to accept or allow behaviour that is wrong
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Condone stems from the Latin condonare "to give up, remit, permit."
Condone was originally a legal term in the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857. This law allowed divorce through the law courts, instead of the slow and expensive business of a private act of parliament.
Under the terms of the act, the husband had only to prove his wife's adultery, but the wife had to prove her husband had committed not just adultery but also incest, bigamy, cruelty or desertion.
Prior to the law, divorce was essentially governed by the Church of England. The act established a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widened the availability of divorce beyond the privileged few. It also had the effect of getting lawyers involved in divorce proceedings.
Some people might not necessarily view this as a positive development. As American author and playwright Jean Kerr once said: "A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good undertaker wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
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SYNONYMS
disregard, forgive, go along with, let pass, overlook, wink at
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I don't condone teenage drinking, but we were all teenagers at one time weren't we?"
verb
- to accept or allow behaviour that is wrong
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Condone stems from the Latin condonare "to give up, remit, permit."
Condone was originally a legal term in the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857. This law allowed divorce through the law courts, instead of the slow and expensive business of a private act of parliament.
Under the terms of the act, the husband had only to prove his wife's adultery, but the wife had to prove her husband had committed not just adultery but also incest, bigamy, cruelty or desertion.
Prior to the law, divorce was essentially governed by the Church of England. The act established a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widened the availability of divorce beyond the privileged few. It also had the effect of getting lawyers involved in divorce proceedings.
Some people might not necessarily view this as a positive development. As American author and playwright Jean Kerr once said: "A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good undertaker wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
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SYNONYMS
disregard, forgive, go along with, let pass, overlook, wink at
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I don't condone teenage drinking, but we were all teenagers at one time weren't we?"
