Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To overlook, forgive, or disregard (an offense) without protest or censure. See Synonyms at forgive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To forgive or pardon, as something wrong, especially by implication, as through some act of friendship or confidence toward the offender; overlook, as an offense or fault.
- Specifically In law, to forgive, or to act so as to imply forgiveness of (a violation of the marriage vow). See condonation, 2.
- To cause to overlook or forgive; atone for.
- Synonyms See pardon.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To forgive, excuse or overlook (something).
- v. transitive To allow, accept or permit (something).
- v. transitive, law To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To pardon; to forgive.
- v. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- v. excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with
Etymologies
- Latin condōnāre : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + dōnāre, to give (from dōnum, gift; see dō- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What I DO NOT condone is reducing the debate over an issue to the level of stupid personal attacks.”
“What the left does not condone is Israel’s objective of reestablishing a credible deterrent in Gaza.”
“What I don’t condone is the utter mismanagement that the bush admin did in afghanistan.”
“Brown again says that the UK doesn't "condone" torture, and that Sir Peter Gibson will investigate any complaints on the matter, and will report to Brown.”
“That's why a statement that Hillary does not "condone" the comment is weak tea.”
“It's not enough to say you do not "condone" remarks by your own official chairperson and staffer.”
“If the Clinton camp truly doesn't "condone" this bullshit, Shaheen should be canned.”
“Responding to a question about a Clinton-era policy that is coming under renewed scrutiny amid fears of future U.S. troop shortages, Pace said the Pentagon should not "condone" immoral behavior by allowing gay soldiers to serve openly.”
“Bernadette Sands-McKevitt has also denied involvement and said she could not "condone" the bombing.”
“If you mean "believe in" in the sense of "condone", then you're running up against the fallacy of appeals to Nature.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘condone’.
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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SAT words
tergiversate, cymotrichous, vigilance, wince, consternation, cower, neutralize, euphony, cacophony, misanthrope, bibliophile, kleptomania and 81 more...
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aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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infuriating, galvanize, sporadic, imperciptible, shirk, protean, versatile, auspicious, clairvoyance, nary, predilection, inkling and 63 more...
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laissez faire, propensity, punitive, explicit, whim, extenuating, distort, gross, grossly, hearsay, dispel, apprehensive and 113 more...
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garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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SAT vocab
abash, abate, abdicate, aberration, abhor, abject, abnegate, abortive, absolve, abstruse, accolade, accost and 175 more...
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GRE
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abhor, abjure, abrasive, abridge, abstain, acme, activism, adhere, admonish and 195 more...
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alleviate, ambiguous, archaic, bizarre, celerity, condone, emulate, expedite, extraneous, facetious, menial, paltry and 8 more...
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GRE list #2
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abjure, abscond, abstemious, accretion, acidulous, acme, adulterate, aerie, affected, aggrandize, alacrity, mitigate and 221 more...
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