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   connivance

   /kəˈnʌɪvns/

   noun

   • 1. willingness to allow or be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act: "this infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials"

   Word Origin late 16th century (also in the Latin sense ‘winking’): from French connivence or Latin conniventia, from connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’ (see connive).

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