convenance
noun
suitability; expediency; propriety.
convenances
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pluralof convenance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The girls secure their window and pelt their black-bearded Professor in the street below without dread of a scolding on the "convenances."
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene
But the social convenances are not to be measured by Oldchester's provincial ideas as to their strangeness.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
This breach of the convenances has excited much comment in the fashionable world to which they belong.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 17, 1890. by Various
However bold the operations, the convenances must be observed.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson
The riders moved slowly down a rough pasture-field, and took up their position along the brow of Ardmeen covert, into which the hounds had already hurled themselves with their customary contempt for the convenances.
From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
