Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet CONNIVE

Definition av CONNIVE

1. (med partikel: connive at) blunda för, se genom fingrarna med

Exempel på hur man kan använda CONNIVE i en mening

• Then, Garda Arnaut de Espelette, with loyalty to the "English run" Basques of the Duchy of Aquitaine, sent a letter, dated 29 July 1289 praying the Ainhoa people to adequately connive with him.
• A Slavic prince named Billung married the beautiful sister of Bishop Wago of Starigard and had with her a daughter Hodica and a son Mstislaw, whom he, taking advantage of his jealousy of the Saxons, goaded into hatred of Christianity and his mother until, having so offended his wife, he began to connive against Christianity and the bishops.
• An amorous intrigue in which Volpino, the chimney sweep, and Lisel, the cook, connive at receiving a dowry from their social betters, Herr von Bär and Herr von Wolf.
• Politicians soon learned to respect her: she could drink, battle, cuss and connive with the best of them, outspend practically all of them.
• When these magistrates "connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people" they "fraudulently betray the liberty of the people" when God has appointed them guardians of that liberty.

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