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convenance

[ kon-vuh-nahns; French kawnvuh-nahns ]

noun

plural convenances
  1. suitability; expediency; propriety.
  2. convenances, the social proprieties or conventionalities.


convenance

/ °ìɔ̃±¹²Ôɑ̃²õ /

noun

  1. suitable behaviour; propriety
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of convenance1

1475–85; < Anglo-French, equivalent to conven ( ir ) to be proper + -ance -ance
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of convenance1

from convenir to be suitable, from Latin ³¦´Ç²Ô±¹±ð²ÔÄ«°ù±ð; see convenient
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Some striking instances of the Marriage de convenance being infringed on, have lately occurred in France.

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France is the most unchanging country in the world in her habits and domestic institutions, and foremost among these is her ‘Marriage de convenance,’ or ‘Marriage de raison.’

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In the Hellenic world, also, among the successors of Alexander the Great, there was a revoltingly large number of marriages de convenance, so that even the old Seleucos took to wife the grand-daughter of his competitor Antegonos, Lysimachos the daughter of Ptolemy etc.

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Et si, en l'écartant on veut que le Concile prenne lui-même la responsabilité d'une définition dogmatique, il est alors de toute convenance, de toute justice, de toute nécessité qu'il ne prononce qu'après l'examen le plus approfondi.

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Value is either a "rapport de convenance" between a man and a good, i.e., ophelimity, or is a "taux d'échange," a ratio between two goods.

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