I held in my pocket an unusually well-preserved example of a bell-metal piece of the First French Revolution, when I was calling on a friend, who by training and descent should have acquired a tincture of conversance with such matters.
There is one house, which avers that it carries on this system for the public good--in order to diffuse a conversance with numismatic science.
His practical conversance with literary affairs was almost nil; but he was willing to take a good deal on credit, and had a natural leaning toward letters and art.
But theconversance with our language in former times, even among those who devoted their attention to philology and instruction, was excessively scanty and inexact.
With the reign of Elizabeth the habit of foreign travel and the consequent value of a conversance with languages, especially French and Italian, imparted the first marked stimulus and development to this class of literary enterprise.
But in lapse of time it became the pretext and cover for the grossest sensuality; and the associations which the unlearned reader has with the name are only strengthened by conversance with the literature to which it gave birth.
Edith, the gentle queen of Edward the Confessor, was noted alike for her skill with the needle and her conversance with literature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conversance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
