convenance
Americannoun
plural
convenances-
suitability; expediency; propriety.
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convenances, the social proprieties or conventionalities.
noun
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
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
Some striking instances of the Marriage de convenance being infringed on, have lately occurred in France.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.
It was not a mariage de convenance; the young people had chosen freely.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha
While in Martinique, Jerome Bonaparte said to a former resident of Baltimore, "Ah! il me faut une mariage de convenance."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
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