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- verb Present participle of
conventionalize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous
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Examples
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It must also be pointed out that there is a close likeness between some of these so-called conventionalized figures of birds and those of moths or butterflies.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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These feathers vary in form and arrangement, and the angles between them are occupied by horn-shape bodies, two of which have highly complicated extremities recalling conventionalized birds.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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It is a "conventionalized" creation, as we say of ornamentation.
In the Wilderness Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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"conventionalized" creation, as we say of ornamentation.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The designs may become so conventionalized that they are unrecognizable to all but the original artist.
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The designs may become so conventionalized that they are unrecognizable to all but the original artist.
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It is an actual example of "realism" unencumbered and applied with great rigor, and it is likely to unmoor the assumptions of those readers tied to a more conventionalized, less ascetic understanding of the role of "realistic" dialogue.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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It has the look of the inter-war year, when Gothic revival had become canonical, if not quite conventionalized.
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In some ways this is an asset to the book, since it reinforces the sense that for many young people like "Buzz" Pepper this was an emotionally dead time, but for me the alienated youth theme only seems all the more conventionalized and predictable when it's cast as the foundation of an historical re-creation, a glimpse of a previous era's teenage wasteland.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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The main thing that fascinates in Frye is exactly his basic assumption - the quasi-anthropological approach he takes to literature, tracing its beginning to the two sides of an endlessly spinning coin - ritual and prophetic epiphany, and how they gave rise to mythmaking, and later - to the more familiar conventionalized forms of literature.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
BrainyBabe commented on the word conventionalized
Up to now, Dudley Scales had always got on very well with convention; but now that convention quarrelled with his desires, he began to discover that he had no respect for it whatsoever, and never had. To hell with conventions! But on second thoughts, perhaps it need not come to that. Perhaps Yashima would permit herself to be conventionalized. -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
December 24, 2008