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connivances

connivances is the plural of connivance.

Meaning of connivance

Noun

connivance (countable and uncountable, plural connivances)

  1. The process of conniving or conspiring.
    • The Abbot’s house, which formed the third side of the square, was, though injured, still inhabited, and afforded refuge to the few brethren who yet, rather by connivance than by actual authority, were permitted to remain at Kennaquhair.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...

Questions about connivances

What is connivances the plural of?
Connivances is the plural of connivance.

Words near connivances in the dictionary

  1. conniption fit
  2. conniption fits
  3. conniptions
  4. Connitticut
  5. connivance
  6. connivances
  7. connivancies
  8. connivancy
  9. connivant
  10. connive
  11. connived

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