Convenience
[kən'viːnɪəns] or [kən'vinɪəns]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being useful and convenient; 'they offered the convenience of an installment plan'.
(noun.) the state of being suitable or opportune; 'chairs arranged for his own convenience'.
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Conveniency
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Suitableness, fitness, propriety.[2]. Commodiousness, accommodation, satisfaction.[3]. Cause of satisfaction, source of comfort.
Editor: Michel
Examples
- He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience. Jane Austen. Emma.
- If you want to study anybody's convenience, it had better be Miss Halcombe's. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Talk about our keeping slaves, as if we did it for our _convenience_, said Marie. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The order and convenience of a palace are no less essential to its beauty, than its mere figure and appearance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two _gentlemen_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And in return I will, at my own convenience, tell you what you desire to know about your parentage. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is, I believe, too little yielding--certainly too little for the convenience of the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was in vain to represent to her that some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this objectionable practice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Why, he said, you should give them the ordinary conveniences of life. Plato. The Republic.
- For the conveniences of forage, the teams for supplying the army were kept at Harper's Ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But beside all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich and to each other. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Since that age, it is true, I had lived luxuriously, or at least surrounded by all the conveniences civilization afforded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Merchants and traders in unarmed ships, who accommodate different nations by communicating and exchanging the necessaries and conveniences of life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is associated too much with the comforts and conveniences of life; too little with 'the goods of the soul which we desire for their own sake. Plato. The Republic.
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