0 to accept or allow behaviour that is wrong:
If the government is seen to condone violence, the bloodshed will never stop.
1 to ignore or accept behavior that some people consider wrong:
By refusing to allow a school and condoning their excessive consumption of alcohol and coca, she considered the hacendado directly responsible for perpetuating backwardness.
Conversely, nonlocals' use of please backfires because acting "proper" asser ts superiority in terms not locally condoned.
And she seems to condone the absolutely awful usages of the combined pronoun (s/he) and the alternate pronouns.
Or to put it another way, having no interest in the present civilization, he could hardly condone that repression which made it possible.
In this spontaneous mass reaction thesis, the state's inaction during the violence gets condoned.
Nor is it to condone relativism or an "anything goes" posture.
In the former case, it may not be clear whether the official is condoning the behavior or simply tolerating it.
But the fact that marriages across this divide are never condoned does not mean they do not occur.
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