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Convention

noun

A large formal assembly.

Something regarded as a normative example. Synonyms: formula, normal, pattern, rule. "Violence is the rule not the exception" , "His formula for impressing visitors"

(diplomacy) an international agreement.

Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional. Synonyms: conventionalism, conventionality. Antonym: unconventionality.

The act of convening. Synonym: convening.

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"Convention" Quotes from Famous Books

... been rather clever of me, showing as it did a due regard for convention combined with a pretty idiosyncrasy. Mr Brindley was clearly taken aback. The idea struck him as a new one. He reflected, and ...

— The Grim Smile of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett

... a rule and give them a thread upon which to hang an argument, and in a minute a free silver, demo-popocrat convention would sound tame in comparison. Go into a squad-room at any time the men are off duty, and you can have a discussion on almost any old subject from the result of the coming prize fight to the deepest ...

— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

... that in spite of Calliope's distress at the ways of us in Friendship, a matchless delicacy was among its people a dominant note. Not the delicacy born of convention, not that sometimes bred in the crudest by urban standards, but a finer courtesy that will spare the conscious stab which convention allows. It was, if I may say so, a savoir faire of the heart instead of the head. But we had hardly ...

— Friendship Village • Zona Gale

... has tried their hand at hating Fanny and despising her and ignoring her and putting her in her place. But everybody has long ago given it up. Stylish and convention-loving newcomers are always disgusted and keep her at arm's length. But sooner or later such people break an arm or a leg right in the midst of strawberry canning maybe and it so happens that nobody sees them do this but Fanny. And when this does happen they don't even have to mortify ...

— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

... never for a moment cared a straw for her—caused her actually to hate him as he again made it, quite without prejudice, crystal clear. It was true that he had more than kept his word—that he had never broken a convention in his bearing towards her—that in his rigid way he had behaved like a prince—but she had been dirt under his feet—she had been dirt under his feet! She wanted to rave like a fishwife—though there were no ...

— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett

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