connivance 音标拼音: [kən'ɑɪvəns]
n . 默许,纵容,假装不见
默许,纵容,假装不见
connivance n 1 :
agreement on a secret plot [
synonym : {
connivance }, {
collusion }]
2 : (
law )
tacit approval of someone '
s wrongdoing [
synonym :
{
connivance }, {
secret approval }, {
tacit consent }]
Connivance \
Con *
niv "
ance \,
n . [
Cf .
F .
connivence ,
L .
conniventia .]
1 .
Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing ;
voluntary oversight ;
passive consent or cooperation .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 . (
Law )
Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing ,
not involving actual participation in ,
but knowledge of ,
and failure to prevent or oppose it .
Syn :
See {
Collusion }.
[
1913 Webster ]
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "
connivance ":
OK ,
acceptance ,
accord ,
acquiescence ,
affirmation ,
affirmative ,
affirmative voice ,
agreement ,
approbation ,
approval ,
artifice ,
assent ,
aye ,
blessing ,
cabal ,
chicane ,
chicanery ,
collusion ,
compliance ,
complicity ,
complot ,
confederacy ,
connivery ,
consent ,
conspiracy ,
contrivance ,
contriving ,
counterplot ,
covin ,
deep -
laid plot ,
dodgery ,
eagerness ,
endorsement ,
engineering ,
finagling ,
finesse ,
foul play ,
frame -
up ,
game ,
indulgence ,
intrigue ,
little game ,
machination ,
maneuvering ,
manipulation ,
okay ,
overlooking ,
permission ,
permissiveness ,
pettifoggery ,
pettifogging ,
plot ,
plotting ,
promptitude ,
promptness ,
ratification ,
readiness ,
rigging ,
sanction ,
scheme ,
schemery ,
scheming ,
sharp practice ,
skulduggery ,
sleight ,
stratagem ,
submission ,
sufferance ,
supercherie ,
tolerance ,
toleration ,
trick ,
trickery ,
underhand dealing ,
underplot ,
ungrudgingness ,
unloathness ,
unreluctance ,
web of intrigue ,
willingness ,
winking ,
wire -
pulling CONNIVANCE .
An agreement or consent ,
indirectly given ,
that something unlawful shall be done by another .
2 .
The connivance of the husband to his wife '
s prostitution deprives him of the right of obtaining a divorce ;
or of recovering damages from the seducer .
4 T .
R .
657 .
It may be satisfactorily proved by implication .
3 .
Connivance differs from condonation , (
q .
v .)
though either may have the same legal consequences .
Connivance necessarily involves criminality on the part of the individual who connives ,
condonation may take place without implying the slightest blame to the party who forgives the injury .
4 .
Connivance must be the act of the mind before the offence has been committed ;
condonation is the result of a determination to forgive an injury which was not known until after it was inflicted .
3 Hagg .
Eccl .
R .
350 .
5 .
Connivance differs ,
also ,
from collusion (
q .
Y .);
the former is generally collusion .
for a particular purpose ,
while the latter may exist without connivance .
3 Hagg ,
Eccl .
R .
130 .
Vide Shelf .
on Mar . &
Div .
449 ;
3 Hagg .
R .
82 ;
2 Hagg .
R .
376 ;
Id .
278 ;
3 Hagg .
R .
58 ,
107 ,
119 ,
131 ,
312 ;
3 Pick .
R .
299 ;
2 Caines ,
219 ;
Anth .
N .
P .
196 .
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