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Conversance

Conversance \Con"ver*sance\, n. The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy. [R.]

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conversance

n. The condition of being conversant

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conversance

n. personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity, conversancy]

Usage examples of "conversance".

But I did have some conversance with that clumsy system, so I rose to the challenge.

New conversance with tradesmen's bills had forced his reasoning into a new channel of comparison: he had begun to consider from a new point of view what was necessary and unnecessary in goods ordered, and to see that there must be some change of habits.

And though some conversance with them there was, yet in those parts folk knew next to nothing of them.

Lane cut in, surprised at both Ernst's and Quality's conversance with the skeletons in America's closet.

Stile said, unpleased about Merle's conversance with his private life.