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In natural English speech, "connive" appears in contexts such as: "you out of it my good utterson said the doctor this is very good of you this is downright good of you and i cannot find words to thank thus connived for even now i can scarce grant that i committed it i have no desire of entering". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/kəˈnaɪv/

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you out of it my good utterson said the doctor this is very good of you this is downright good of you and i cannot find words to thank

thus connived for even now i can scarce grant that i committed it i have no desire of entering

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verb

To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.

“I might say, / That who despairs, acts; that who acts, connives / With God's relations set in time and space; [...]”

verb

Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.

“This species [...] differs from other species of this genus in the upper pinnæ being contracted, which are sinuously lobed, each lacinæ and lobe bearing a sorus, furnished with a nearly orbicular indusium, the free exterior margin of which connives with the margin of the lobe, [...]”

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