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n. The act of conniving.

n. Law Knowledge of and tacit consent to the commission of an illegal act by another.

n. The process of conniving.

n. Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or coöperation.

n. Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it.

n. The act of conniving, tacitly permitting, or indirectly aiding; collusion by withholding condemnation or exposure; tacit or implied encouragement, especially of wrong-doing.

n. In the law of divorce, specifically, the corrupt consenting of a married person to that conduct in the spouse of which complaint is afterward made.

n. agreement on a secret plot

n. (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing

"It is probable that the Count was in connivance with them about all this, but anybody was surely little acquainted with me who did not know that I was too busy with my art to give any time to politics, even if I had not always felt an aversion to everything smacking of intrigue."

approval    commendation   

collusion    coöperation    consent   

collusion    winking   

contrivance   

remissness    heedlessness    inattention    collusion    inadvertence