Word Meanings - CONDONATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act

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Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act of condoning or pardoning.

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• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• IMPLIEDLY
  By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.
• OFFENSELESS
  Unoffending; inoffensive.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• ADULTERY
  The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• IMPLICITNESS
  State or quality of being implicit.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• IMPLICITY
  Implicitness. Cotgrave.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• REPEATER
  One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• HUSBANDRY
  1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all
• EXPRESSURE
  The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
• OFFENSEFUL
  Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
• SIMPLIFICATION
  The act of simplifying. A. Smith.
• UNIMPLICATE
  Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• SIMPLICIAN
  One who is simple. Arnway.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.