English-Thai Dictionary

connivance

VI การ มองข้าม ความผิดพลาด  kan-mong-kam-kwam-phid-plad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONNIVANCE

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.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CONNIVANCE

Con *niv "ance, n. Etym: [Cf. F. connivence, L. conniventia.]

 

1. Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or co

 

2. (Law )

 

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

 

Syn. -- See Collusion.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

connivance

con niv ance |kəˈnīvəns kəˈnaɪvəns | ▶noun willingness to secretly allow or be involved in wrongdoing, esp. an immoral or illegal act: this infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (also in the Latin sense ‘winking ’): from French connivence or Latin conniventia, from connivere ‘shut the eyes (to )’ (see connive ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

connivance

con |niv ¦ance |kəˈnʌɪv (ə )ns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] willingness to allow or be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act: this infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (also in the Latin sense ‘winking ’): from French connivence or Latin conniventia, from connivere ‘shut the eyes (to )’ (see connive ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

connivance

connivance noun she was wholly unaware of the connivance of her husband and her best friend: collusion, complicity, collaboration, involvement, assistance; tacit consent, conspiracy, intrigue.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

connivance

connivance noun this infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials: collusion, complicity, collaboration, involvement, assistance, abetting; tacit consent; conspiracy, plotting, scheming, intrigue, machination, secret understanding; rare abetment, condonation.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

connivance

con niv ance /kənáɪv (ə )ns /名詞 U ｟否定的に ｠(悪事と知りながら )見逃すこと, 黙認 ; 【人との 】共謀 «with » .