connivance (konivans)

[Le correct form for connivence, also written connivency; It is better to mitigate usury by declaration than to suffer it to rage by connivance . Bacon , Usury. Better had it beene for him that the heathen had heard the fame of his justice than of his wilfull connivence and Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. partiality. Such abuses had gradually prevailed and gained strength Hallam. by connivance. 2. In the law of divorce, specifically, the corrupt consenting of a married person to that conduct in the spouse of which complaint is afterward made. Bishop.