connivance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONNIVANCE, noun [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.
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