convenance
Americannoun
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suitability; expediency; propriety.
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convenances, the social proprieties or conventionalities.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of convenance
1475–85; < Anglo-French, equivalent to conven ( ir ) to be proper + -ance -ance
Example Sentences
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It is equally obvious to anyone who knows Philip that he is not the type to submit meekly to the dictates of a dynastic manage de convenance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither the climate nor "the freezing social convenance" of England pleased Mme.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
All that he has of good within him is cramped by convenance and fashion; for he who never feared the chance of fortune, trembles, with a coward’s dread, before the sneer of the world.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James
As a Frenchman, I know it scarcely becomes me to throw the first stone at my neighbour for this: France is admittedly a country where mariages de convenance are common.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack
Marriages de convenance are when a parvenu barters his gold for good blood, or where an ancienne princesse mends her fortune with a nouveau riche, profound indifference, meanwhile, on each side.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
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