Condone /(?)/

Con·done

Condone

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Condoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Condoning

  1. To pardon; to forgive.
    A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned.
    — W. Black.
    It would have been magnanimous in the men then in power to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns.
    — J. C. Shairp.
  2. 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. (Law)