convenance
suitability; expediency; propriety.
convenances, the social proprieties or conventionalities.
Origin of convenance
1Words Nearby convenance
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How to use convenance in a sentence
Nevertheless, since she married—as girls in France do—not to please herself, but her parents, she made a mariage de convenance.
Night and Morning, Complete | Edward Bulwer-LyttonHe was thinking of this marriage de convenance he must make, of this bride he must one day take home to England.
A Changed Heart | May Agnes FlemingOf course I shall have to marry one day or other, but I'm afraid it will be what the French call a mariage de convenance.
By Right of Conquest | Arthur HornblowThis mariage de convenance brought no happiness to the parties concerned, and ended in completely crushing the unloved wife.
Chantilly in History and Art | Louise M. RichterIt was a mariage de convenance—there'd been no wooing, no winning.
Tales Of Men And Ghosts | Edith Wharton
British Dictionary definitions for convenance
/ French (kɔ̃vnɑ̃s) /
suitable behaviour; propriety
Origin of convenance
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