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Definition of Connivance
1. Noun. Agreement on a secret plot.
Generic synonyms: Agreement
Specialized synonyms: Cahoot
Derivative terms: Collude, Connive
2. Noun. (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing.
Generic synonyms: Approval, Commendation
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Connive
Definition of Connivance
1. n. Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or coöperation.
Definition of Connivance
1. Noun. The process of conniving. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Connivance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Connivance
Literary usage of Connivance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce: With the Evidence, Practice by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1881)
"The connivance may be a passive permitting of the adultery or other ... If the
mind consents, that is connivance. And there is no connivance without such ..."
2. The Law of Marriage and Divorce, Giving the Law in All the States and by Frank H Keezer (1906)
"connivance. connivance is the consent of the complainant to the respondent's
commission of the offence complained of. This consent may be either express or ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"To establish connivance It is not necessary to show knowledge of or privity to
the actual ... RA not have been committed, does not amount to connivance. ..."
4. A Handbook of Husband and Wife According to the Law of Scotland by Frederick Parker Walton (1893)
"By connivance," says Sir Cress- well Cresswell, " I understand the willing consent
of the husband, that the husband gives a willing consent to the act, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife by James Schouler (1882)
"connivance as a Defence. — connivance being a charge to which any spouse too readily
... Condonation may be guiltless, but connivance imports guilt. ..."
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