Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That which is becoming or proper; conventional propriety.
  • noun plural The conventionalities of life.
  • noun a marriage based on considerations of family interests, such as birth, position, fortune, or the like, rather than on personal predilection.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.

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  • noun obsolete conventional propriety

Etymologies

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From French convenir

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Examples

  • Ibsen is in favor of the mariage de convenance, which suppresses, without favor, the absurdity of love-matches.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • Since we are a nation who thrives on convenance you think people will grow it themself when they can just go buy it. hell no, then those same people will have something else to complain about.

    Obama or McCain? 2008

  • The upside of this convenance is that commuters accept a modern, reliable approach of transport, they accumulate beside of the latest technology and their cartage seldom, if ever, crave additional parts.

    Auto Parts, The Pros and Cons 2008

  • Ibsen is in favor of the mariage de convenance, which suppresses, without favor, the absurdity of love-matches.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • En effet, je deteste mariage de convenance, mauvaise honte et mauvais sujet.

    My Personal Ode written in French and American English Translation Nomadicasian 2007

  • It ` s not a full deed with convenance (ph) against a grantor.

    CNN Transcript May 18, 2007 2007

  • What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out?

    The Newcomes 2006

  • You see, in these mariages de convenance, though a coronet may be convenient to a beautiful young creature, and a beautiful young creature may be convenient to an old gentleman, there are articles which the marriage-monger cannot make to convene at all: tempers over which M. de Foy and his like have no control; and tastes which cannot be put into the marriage settlements.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • We make marriages of convenance in our country, que diable, and what follows follows; but no scandal afterwards!

    The Newcomes 2006

  • France is the country where that sweet Christian institution of mariages de convenance (which so many folks of the family about which this story treats are engaged in arranging) is most in vogue.

    The Newcomes 2006

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