conveniency

American  

[kuhn-veen-yuhn-see] / kənˈvin jən si /

noun

Archaic.

conveniencies plural

1. convenience.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• conveniencies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of conveniency

From the Latin word convenientia, dating back to 1485–95. See convenience, -cy

Example Sentences

Six islands in the Antilles where Lesser is more Believe me, Sire, these countries far surpass all the rest of the world in beauty and conveniency.

From Time Magazine Archive

The activity of the smith, stimulated by the increased reward, quickly produced the conveniency wanted.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

They suffered for victuals, clothes, and every other conveniency.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

Food, motion, rising, and going to sleep, dressing and visiting, had not depended, as at home, on my own conveniency and will.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

This conveniency is as well seen to without the surplice.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George