Associations to the word «Connivance»

Wiktionary

CONNIVANCE, noun. The process of conniving.

Dictionary definition

CONNIVANCE, noun. Agreement on a secret plot.
CONNIVANCE, noun. (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky