Definition of Connivances

1. Noun. (plural of connivance) ¹

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Definition of Connivances

1. connivance [n] - See also: connivance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Connivances

connexity
connexive
connexives
connexon
connexons
connexus
connexus intertendineus
conning
conning tower
conning towers
connings
conniption
conniption fit
conniptions
connivance
connivances
connivant
connive
connive at
connived
connivencies
connivency
connivent
conniver
conniveries
connivers
connivery
connives
conniving
connivingly

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 Louise de La Vallière and the Early Life of Louis XIV: From Unpublished by Jules Auguste Lair (1908)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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