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convenances

  • plural
    of convenance.
    convenance
    noun
    suitability; expediency; propriety.

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Before the world due regard must be paid to les convenances; of course the cause of our separation must never be mentioned between ourselves.

From The Eichhofs A Romance by Moritz von Reichenbach

The best off-shoot of French poetry at that time was the return to nature, and the struggle of truth against the fetters of old convenances, This was incomprehensible to the King.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

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

“Les convenances, I believe——” “Je m’en fiche,” cried the Admiral, snapping his fingers.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Ah, my countrymen," I thought, "you do a hundred crazy things, you crush les convenances under foot, you can be fooled by frantic visionaries, but how I love you!"

From Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play by Octave Thanet