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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Condone \Con*done"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Condoned}; p. pr & vb n. {Condoning}.] [L. condonare -donatum, to give up remit, forgive; con- + donare to give See {Donate}.] 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
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