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Webster 1913 Edition
Condone
Con-done′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Condoned
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Condoning
.] 1.
To pardon; to forgive.
A fraud which he had either concocted or
condoned
. W. Black.
2.
(Law)
To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; – said of either the husband or the wife.
Definition 2024
condone
condone
See also: condoné
English
Verb
condone (third-person singular simple present condones, present participle condoning, simple past and past participle condoned)
- (transitive) To forgive, excuse or overlook (something).
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess:
- ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
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- (transitive) To allow, accept or permit (something).
- (transitive, law) To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense).
Translations
to forgive
to allow
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Spanish
Verb
condone
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of condonar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of condonar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of condonar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of condonar.