conversance

Example Sentences

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Oh, sure, he picks up certain ideas along the way, and an expectant father achieves a certain conversance with cervical topics, but mostly he keeps his mouth shut.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2014

So O’Donnell’s policy deficiencies didn’t lose her the debate, just as Coons’ effortless policy conversance didn’t win it for him.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2010

“He had a stunning conversance about what we were doing here and why people should be paying attention to Silicon Valley,” said former California state controller Steve Westly, an early executive at eBay.

From Washington Post

He carried with him to Europe some conversance with French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and an insatiable thirst for literature in these, languages.

From A Modern Instance by Howells, William Dean

But the conversance with our language in former times, even among those who devoted their attention to philology and instruction, was excessively scanty and inexact.

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew