Definitions
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- verb to make conventional.
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- verb Alternative spelling of
conventionalize .
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- verb make conventional or adapt to conventions
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Examples
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Greenwich will not straighten its streets nor conventionalise its views.
Greenwich Village Anna Alice Chapin 1900
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The way to be untrue to Shakespeare here, as always, is to relax the tension of imagination, to conventionalise, to conceive
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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It is a natural part of civilisation's lust of re-arrangement that we should be so ready to conventionalise the beauty of this world into decorative patterns for our pilgrim tents.
The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885
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Thus, though we conventionalise practice, we never conventionalise dogma.
The Fair Haven Samuel Butler 1868
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The reason for this might have been found in the fact that acquired characteristics do not receive the stamp of heredity in one generation — his father was a self-made man, and had taught himself rigidly to conventionalise; and it might have been found in the fact that his mother had impressed upon his youthful mind the code of polite procedure in a way which made it appear an unpleasant duty — a mask, highly distasteful, but which must perforce be donned under certain conditions.
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