Literary notes about Condone (AI summary)
In literature, "condone" is often employed to suggest a measured or reluctant tolerance toward questionable behavior or moral failings. Writers use the term to articulate situations where minor transgressions may be overlooked for the sake of practicality or affection [1], while simultaneously signaling disapproval when actions cross ethical boundaries [2]. At times, to condone means to offer a form of conditional forgiveness, implying that while an offense may be momentarily excused, its repetition would not be allowed [3]. In other contexts, the word underscores a broader societal debate about whether certain misdeeds can ever be truly excused or must always be condemned [4]. This nuanced use of "condone" deepens character complexity and enriches thematic explorations of justice and morality within the narrative [5].
- Because a man is rich shall we condone his base acts?
— from A Man of Two Countries by Alice Harriman - The world knows the truth—marriage can never whitewash Virginia in society's eyes—no future can condone the crime of the past.
— from Tales from Many SourcesVol. V by Various - "If I condone past offences, it must be upon condition that they are never repeated, for leniency is not one of my characteristics.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans - It was not to condone the world but to condemn it.
— from Why I Preach the Second Coming by Isaac Massey Haldeman - A jury of matrons—that was to say an appeal to a court that did not condone embezzlement and smile at thievish contracts—was exactly what was needed.
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions
