arch. or Obs. Also 7 -ancey, -ancy. [ad. L. co(n)nīvēntia: see prec. and -ENCY.] 1. = CONNIVENCE 1.
1600. Holland, Livy, I. xlvi. 33. They were married, with Servius his leave and connivencie, rather than his good liking.
1621. Commons’ Petit., in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 41. If it once get but a connivancey, it will press for a Toleration.
1689. Def. Liberty agst. Tyrants, 30. Chastised for their negligence, connivency, and stupidity.
1876. Browning, Cenciaja, 158. Such connivency With crime as should procure a decent death.
† b. Const. at, to. Obs.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met. (1640), 14. And what was this but his connivency at wicked and licentious people.
1634. W. Tirwhyt, trans. Balzac’s Lett., 185. It hath rather beene a connivency to the necessity of time.
1689. Myst. of Iniq., 14. Obtaining his connivancy at their violation of the Laws.
† 2. Tendency to converge. Obs.
1691. Ray, Creation (1714), 191. The Earth being such a one and all its Parts having a Propension or Connivency to the Center.
