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  • noun A person who condones

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Examples

  • Personally, I see no need to justify the awarding of a prize for peace that was awarded to and never revoked from Yasser Arafat, a man who, until he took his last breath, was an unapologetic terrorist and an organizer, condoner, and propagator of mass murder.

    Av Sinensky: State of Love and Trust: Pearl Jam's Backspacer, Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize 2009

  • The writer and condoner of the following paragraph surely need a lengthy furlough to Britain or the

    New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

  • ‘Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable,’ a condoner of murder (for ‘them that havenae dipped their hands in any little difficulty should be very mindful of the case of them that have’), a confirmed gambler, as quarrel – some as a turkey – cock, and as vain and sensitive as a child, Alan Breek is one of the most lovable characters in all literature; and his penetration — a great part of which he learned, to take his own account of it, by driving cattle ‘through a throng lowland country with the black soldiers at his tail’ — blossoms into the most delightful reflections upon men and things.

    Robert Louis Stevenson 2004

  • It may be that my neighbours had seen him enter, and thought of me with horror as a condoner of his crime; it may be that they were afraid to meddle with a house that had fallen into so terrible a trouble; or that the frightful hurricane that burst forth and raged that day (as if to show that God's anger was aroused and His justice, though delayed, not forgotten) kept them trembling in their houses.

    The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899

  • 'Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable,' a condoner of murder (for 'them that havenae dipped their hands in any little difficulty should be very mindful of the case of them that have'), a confirmed gambler, as quarrel-some as a turkey-cock, and as vain and sensitive as a child, Alan Breek is one of the most lovable characters in all literature; and his penetration -- a great part of which he learned, to take his own account of it, by driving cattle 'through a throng lowland country with the black soldiers at his tail' -- blossoms into the most delightful reflections upon men and things.

    Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

  • By the neglect of all education except that crude, elementary sort which fits men for the coarse delights of business and affairs but confers no capacity of rational enjoyment; by exalting the worth of wealth and making it the test and touchstone of merit; by ignoring art, scorning literature and despising science, except as these might contribute to the glutting of the purse; by setting up and maintaining an artificial standard of morals which condoned all offenses against the property and peace of every one but the condoner; by pitilessly crushing out of their natures every sentiment and aspiration unconnected with accumulation of property, these civilized savages and commercial barbarians attained their sordid end.

    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878

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