Definition of "condonation"

condonation

noun
countable and uncountable, plural condonations
1. The condoning of an offence.
  Quotations
  After a time it was generally assumed that he could no longer be ignorant, and that his condonation of her behaviour was a further caution to silence.
  1934, Robert Graves, chapter 6, in I, Claudius, Penguin, published 1953, page 72
2. The forgiveness of matrimonial infidelity.
3. (law) A legal defense made when an accuser had forgiven or chosen to ignore an act about which they were legally complaining.