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Con·done 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. Law 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.
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condone
v : excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with;
"excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's
occasional infidelities" [syn: excuse]