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

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

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.

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 Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)

Much of this corruption evidently arises from the iniquitous practice of mariage de convenance, so often speculated in by most match-making mothers, in the two greatest capitals of Europe. 

From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Risk Allah, Habeeb