The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convenance
Convenance \Con"ve*nance\, n. [F., fitness, suitableness.] That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.
And they missed
Their wonted convenance, cheerly hid the loss.
--Emerson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
convenance
late 15c., from French convenance "convention, agreement, convenience," from convenant, present participle of convenir "to come together" (see convene).\n
Wiktionary
convenance
n. (context obsolete English) conventional propriety
Usage examples of "convenance".
France, Italy, and the Romish countries, and which seems to have been painfully common in England in the seventeenth century, when, by a mariage de convenance, a young girl is married up to a rich idiot or a decrepit old man.