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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats