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Webster 1913 Edition

Condonation

Conˊdo-na′tion

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Noun.
[L.
condonatio
a giving away.]
1.
The act of condoning or pardoning.
2.
(Law)
Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated.
Bouvier. Wharton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Condonation

CONDONATION

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Noun.
[L.] The act of pardoning. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

condonation

condonation

English

Noun

condonation ‎(plural condonations)

  1. The condoning of an offence
    • 1934, Robert Graves, I, Claudius, Penguin, 1953, Chapter 6, p. 72,
      After a time it was generally assumed that he could no longer be ignorant, and that his condonation of her behaviour was a further caution to silence.
  2. The forgiveness of matrimonial infidelity

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