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Definition of Connivances

Connivance
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 co["o]peration. 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.

Meaning of Connivances from wikipedia

- Look up connivance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Connivance is the act of conniving or conspiring, especially with the knowledge of and active or...
- State crimes are crimes committed on behalf of or with the connivance of governments. The investigation and prosecution of such crimes is made more difficult...
- Marcos. Claiming his life was under threat through what he described as a connivance between Marcos and the US government, Quiboloy went into hiding and designated...
- January 1933 by President Paul von Hindenburg through the support and connivance of traditional conservative nationalists who believed they could control...
- aristocrat Stanisław August Poniatowski was elected monarch with the connivance and support of his former lover Catherine the Great, a German noblewoman...
- Gyatso and escort him to Lhasa. By the end of the year, with Tibetan connivance they had captured Lhasa, killed Lhazang and all his family and deposed...
- enemies, in July 1694, the Swedish count was killed, possibly with George's connivance, and his body thrown into the river Leine weighted with stones. The murder...
- Alakananda, endears him. The vicious chief minister, Bhanu Pratap, connivances to eliminate the heir, Alakananda, which Vikram senses and sa****uards...
- star postal routes were greatly overpaid for their services with the connivance of government officials (including Second ****istant Postmaster General...
- governor of Durrës. In circa 1005, however, Ashot and Miroslava, with the connivance of Chryselios, fled to Constantinople, where they notified Emperor Basil...