connivance

English

Alternative forms

• connivancy, connivence, connivency (all obsolete)

Etymology

From early 18th c., replaced earlier form connivence (late 16th c.), from Latin connīventia, from connīvēns (“winking”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈnaɪvəns/

Noun

connivance (countable and uncountable, plural connivances)

1. (law) The process of conniving or conspiring.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 271:

     The Abbot’s house, which formed the third side of the square, was, though injured, still inhabited, and afforded refuge to the few brethren who yet, rather by connivance than by actual authority, were permitted to remain at Kennaquhair.

Derived terms

• nonconnivance

 

Translations

(law) the process of conniving or conspiring

• Armenian: թողտվություն (hy) (tʻoġtvutʻyun)
• Finnish: petoksellisuus
• French: connivence (fr) f
• Italian: connivenza (it) f, collaborazionismo (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bêbextî (ku) f

• Russian: попусти́тельство (ru) f (popustítelʹstvo), потво́рство (ru) n (potvórstvo), молчали́вое согла́сие n (molčalívoje soglásije)
• Ukrainian: потурання n (poturannja), мовчазна згода f (movčazna zhoda), співучасть f (spivučastʹ)

Further reading

• connivance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nonvaccine