connivance
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- connivancy, connivence, connivency (all obsolete)
Etymology edit
From early 18th c., replaced earlier form connivence (late 16th c.), from Latin connīventia, from connīvēns (“winking”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
connivance (countable and uncountable, plural connivances)
- (law) The process of conniving or conspiring.
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 271:
- The Abbot’s house, which formed the third side of the square, was, though injured, still inhabited, and afforded refuge to the few brethren who yet, rather by connivance than by actual authority, were permitted to remain at Kennaquhair.
Translations edit
(law) the process of conniving or conspiring
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Further reading edit
- connivance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia