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Definition of Connivances
1. connivance [n] - See also: connivance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Connivances
Literary usage of Connivances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographia Hibernica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland by Richard Ryan (1821)
"... by their connivances, caused the censures of their church to fall upon him.
He was remarkably zealous in promoting the affair of the Irish remonstrance ..."
2. Louise de La Vallière and the Early Life of Louis XIV: From Unpublished by Jules Auguste Lair (1908)
"Louise de La Valliere knew those " connivances" too well ! She had profited by
them, if we can call it profit ; and then her rival, Mme de Montespan, ..."
3. A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive by William Douglass (1755)
"... i'uch mercenary connivances of governors; and while our French inhabitants
retain a language and religion the fame with France, our natural enemy, ..."
4. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856)
"... for any corruptions, frauds, connivances, or concealments, in violation of
any the before mentioned laws, as any officers of the customs in England are ..."
5. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy by William Paley (1835)
"... and with effect, in the punishment of some offences of higher life ; as of
frauds and peculation in office ; of collusions and connivances,by which the ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"... glacier has been abolished, and much of the beauty which people travel to see
has been obliterated by the connivances made to facilitate their access. ..."
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