Verb

(condon)

To forgive, excuse or overlook (something).

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]?  Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}

To allow, accept or permit (something).

(legal) To forgive (marital infidelity or other marital offense).

Verb

(conniv)

to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude

to plot or scheme

to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately

* Jeremy Taylor

to connive at what it does not approve

* Burke

In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving .

* Macaulay

The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.

(archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

* Spectator

The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.

to be a wench