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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.