Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as connivance.
  • noun In natural history, the convergence of parts toward a common point. Same as connivency, 2.

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Examples

  • Contrast that with the local hardware or corner connivence store -- most of which are family run and hire NO outside help whatsoever.

    Thank heaven (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Contrast that with the local hardware or corner connivence store -- most of which are family run and hire NO outside help whatsoever.

    Thank heaven (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Her first stop is a connivence store where she picks up the better part of a six pack of Dogfish Head--proving that she has great taste-- using the change scraped together from her car's ashtray: proving she is completely unprepared for what has happened.

    Turnstyle: [AFI Fest Review] The Dish & The Spoon Turnstyle 2011

  • Better yet, would be to condemn the heartless connivence of politicians in 'the international community who excuse the insanity of wildly uncontrolled mass-homicide, rained down on so many innocent brothers and sisters, at the very same moment that the individuals in command are being accused of crimes against humanity in the International Court in the Hague.

    Condemn "International Community" Acquiescence During The Slaughter of Children 2009

  • For a person like me who is so used to downloading news to a computer and reading it at connivence it is difficult to follow what is going on the great Ames.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Mansoor Khadir 2005

  • For a person like me who is so used to downloading news to a computer and reading it at connivence it is difficult to follow what is going on the great Ames.

    Archive 2005-04-01 Mansoor Khadir 2005

  • For a person like me who is so used to downloading news to a computer and reading it at connivence it is difficult to follow what is going on the great Ames.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Mansoor Khadir 2005

  • For a person like me who is so used to downloading news to a computer and reading it at connivence it is difficult to follow what is going on the great Ames.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Mansoor Khadir 2005

  • If the faultes and vices were fitt to be looked into and discover'd, let the persons be who they would that were guilty of them, they were sure to finde no connivence of favour from him.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • These dreams took shape in the foundation of a secret society -- the 'Philikì Hetairía' or 'League of Friends' -- which established itself at Odessa in 1814 with the connivence of the Russian police, and opened a campaign of propaganda in anticipation of an opportunity to strike.

    The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906

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