How to Use Conversance?

conversance in a sentence
  1. She majored in European history but makes no great claims for her conversance with the subject.
  2. When asked what qualities made a good food critic, Claiborne said, " the ability to write and a conversance with food ."

How to use conversance in a sentence?

Students will gain conversance with a range of artistic techniques, materials, and objects and engage in cross-cultural analysis. Where the legal principle involved is sufficiently basic and elementary, lack of conversance with it constitutes gross ignorance of the law.

How is conversant used?

Today, conversant is sometimes used, especially in the United States, with the meaning "able to talk in a foreign language," as in "she is conversant in several languages," but it is more often associated with knowledge or familiarity, as in "conversant with the issues."

Sarah Jenkins

Sarah Jenkins

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