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To look down upon from a place that is over or above to look over or view from a higher position to be situated above so as to command a view of as to overlook a valley from a hill a hotel room that overlooks the marketplace...
Overlooker
One who overlooks...
Episcopacy
Episcopacy [fr. Gk.], the office of overlooking or overseeing; the office of a bishop who is to overlook and oversee the concerns of the church. A form of church government by diocesan bishops....
Ignoratio elenchi
Ignoratio elenchi, an overlooking of the adversary's counterposition in an argument.Means ignorance of the conclusion to be proved. An advocate's misunderstanding of an opponent's position, manifested by an argument that fails to address the opponent's point; the overlooking of an opponent's counter argument, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p. 750....
condonation
condonation [Medieval Latin condonatio remission, pardon, from Latin condonare to give away, absolve] : voluntary overlooking or pardon of an offense ;specif : express or implied and usually conditional forgiveness of a spouse's marital wrong (as adultery or cruelty) ...
condone
condone con·doned con·don·ing [Latin condonare to give away, absolve] : to pardon or overlook voluntarily ...
connive
connive con·nived con·niv·ing [Latin con(n)ivere to close one's eyes, knowingly overlook something] : to assent knowingly and wrongfully without opposition to another's wrongdoing ;specif : to knowingly consent to a spouse's marital misconduct and esp. to adultery ...
reargument
reargument : new or repeated argument ;esp : presentation of new or additional arguments to a court on a matter of law or fact which a petitioner claims was overlooked or misunderstood by the court NOTE: Reargument requires the granting of a motion, which must be filed within a specified period after entry of the court's judgment. re·ar·gue [-Ä r-gyü] vt ...
establishmentarian
One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character...
Forgiving
Disposed to forgive inclined to overlook offenses mild merciful compassionate placable as a forgiving temper...
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