condonation

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin condōnātiō, condōnātiōnem. Equivalent to condone +‎ -ation.

Noun

condonation (countable and uncountable, plural condonations)

1. The condoning of an offence.
   • 1934, Robert Graves, chapter 6, in I, Claudius, Penguin, published 1953, page 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.
3. (law) A legal defense made when an accuser had forgiven or chosen to ignore an act about which they were legally complaining. ^Wp

Derived terms

• noncondonation

 

Translations

The condoning of an offence

• Bulgarian: прошка (bg) f (proška)