Definition of "conveniency"
conveniency
noun
countable and uncountable, plural conveniencies
(obsolete) Convenience.
Quotations
[…] with all brief and plain conveniency,Let me have judgment […]
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]
They refuse to legalize the marriages of their slaves, but induce them to form such temporary connexions as may suit the owner’s conveniency, just as they would pair the lower animals; and this man has the effrontery to tell us so!
1831, Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, London: F. Westley and A.H. Davis, Supplement by the Editor, page 29