convenance

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It is equally obvious to anyone who knows Philip that he is not the type to submit meekly to the dictates of a dynastic manage de convenance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neither the climate nor "the freezing social convenance" of England pleased Mme.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

Some striking instances of the Marriage de convenance being infringed on, have lately occurred in France.

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.

All that he has of good within him is cramped by convenance and fashion; for he who never feared the chance of fortune, trembles, with a coward's dread, before the sneer of the world.

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James

It is sure to be so in these mariages de convenance, where there is no question of love.

From Saint Michael A Romance by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)