单词 | connivance |
释义 | connivancen. 1. a. The action of conniving; the action of winking at, overlooking or ignoring (an offence, fault, etc.); often implying secret sympathy or approval: tacit permission or sanction; encouragement by forbearing to condemn. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > tacit permission winking1572 connivency1600 connivance1611 connivinga1648 yellow light1940 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Connivence, a conniuence, or winking at. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. iii. 391/2 They dare not..to giue way or conniuence to any the least iniustice. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 32 Not leading into error, as all the Jews were led by this connivence of Moses, if it were a connivence. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 78 The Multitude knows not what Connivance, Mercy, or Danger are. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xliii. 472 [It] procured him a toleration, or at least a connivence. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. x. 82 He thought, it must have been known to be done by his connivance. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. x. 410 They were accused of sharing dividends by mutual connivance. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 297 The husband's connivance in her guilt..is a good defence to the wife against an action of divorce. b. with plural. ΚΠ 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 195 They had..all convenient connivences, and compliances from the State. 1780 H. Croft Abbey of Kilkhampton (1786) 42 The connivances they were said to have assisted in. c. Const. at, in, with (†to). ΚΠ 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. ii. vii. 340 Conniuence at the outrages of the mighty. 1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times iv. 63 By having any connivence with your crime. a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) i. ii. 98 What defence can you alleage for your connivence to the Carthaginian gallies. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 298. ⁋1 The same connivance at the Vices. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White 376 Mrs. Rubelle's connivance..in the conspiracy. 1886 J. Morley H. Martineau in Crit. Misc. III. 192 Connivance at the peculiar institution of the Slave States. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > movements of eye > winking or blinking prinkOE twinklinga1300 blenching1393 twink14.. blenking?a1505 twinking1519 twinkle1548 connivance1596 winka1616 nictation1623 shailing1653 nictitation1794 blinking1871 blink1924 bat1932 saccade1953 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. C2 O thou that hast made so manie men winke..and yet knowest not what Conniuence means. 1614 T. Adams in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1870) I. Ps. xxvi. 10 Their eyes will water and twinkle, and fall at last to blind connivence. 3. Natural History. The fact of being connivent adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > growing together or into each other connascency1676 anastomosingc1810 connivance1830 intergrowtha1859 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 225 The connivence of the anthers in a cone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1596 |
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