convenance

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

She made a marriage de convenance at the age of twenty, apparently without much thought of love upon either side, and entered upon her new career with all the confidence which characterized her.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

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.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson

Scarcely any of these things are called into requisition during the courtship, and this is how mariages de convenance often turn out better than love-matches.

From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell

It was a marriage of the heart, you see, and did not want the trappings with which they gild that bitter pill so often swallowed now-a-days—a "mariage de convenance."

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

But the social convenances are not to be measured by Oldchester's provincial ideas as to their strangeness.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Frances Eleanor Trollope

Practically, fashion and les convenances were her gods.

From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge

Men make revolutionary governments, smash dynasties, transgress laws, but they cannot oppose convenances!

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever

There are convenances even in this kind of life.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna

The best off-shoot of French poetry at that time was the return to nature, and the struggle of truth against the fetters of old convenances, This was incomprehensible to the King.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag