Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-NIV'ANCE
CON-NIV'ANCE, n. [See Connive.]
Properly, the act of winking. Hence figuratively, voluntary blindness to an act; intentional forbearance to see a fault or other act, generally implying consent to it. Every vice interprets a connivance to be approbation. – South.
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