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

He had given her to understand that a marriage de convenance quite met with his approval, that in his day girls married to please their parents.

From The Trail of Conflict by Loring, Emilie Baker

It seemed that when he was only twenty-three he had made a mariage de convenance to please his father.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

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

Think you there would be no more marriages de convenance if we were to give the benefit of our experience to the world?

From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor