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connive Verb [-niving, -nived] 1. connive at to allow or encourage (wrongdoing) by ignoring it 2. to conspire [Latin connivere to blink, hence, leave uncensured]
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why do you thus so cruelly connive at the projected Misery of her and of yourself by delaying to communicate that scheme which had doubtless long possessed your imagination? Thou must connive at her escape, Malvoisin, and I will transport her to some place of greater security and secrecy. Job Trotter briefly explained here, that all persons, being prohibited under heavy penalties from conveying spirits into debtors' prisons, and such commodities being highly prized by the ladies and gentlemen confined therein, it had occurred to some speculative turnkey to connive, for certain lucrative considerations, at two or three prisoners retailing the favourite article of gin, for their own profit and advantage. |
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