Dictionary

connivance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəˈnaɪvəns/
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Etymology

From early 18th c., replaced earlier form connivence (late 16th c.), from Latin connīventia, from connīvēns (“winking”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of conniving or conspiring.
   • The Abbot’s house, which formed the third side of the square, was, though injured, still inhabited, and afforded refuge to the few brethren who yet, rather by connivance than by actual authority, were permitted to remain at Kennaquhair. 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 271:

Forms

Deriveds

nonconnivance

Translations (16)

fr connivence ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · uk мовчазна згода ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · uk потурання ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · ru попусти́тельство ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · fi petoksellisuus ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · ru молчали́вое согла́сие ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · es connivencia ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · kmr bêbextî ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · hy թողտվություն ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · it collaborazionismo ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · pt conivência ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · ru потво́рство ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · it connivenza ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · ta உடந்தை ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · uk співучасть ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring) · ca connivència ((law) the process of conniving or conspiring)