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

However much the Americans may wish to deny it, I am inclined to think that there are more marriages of convenance in the United States than in most other countries.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick

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)

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

While in Martinique, Jerome Bonaparte said to a former resident of Baltimore, "Ah! il me faut une mariage de convenance."

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