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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.

The act of convening. Synonym: convening.

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"Convention" Quotes from Famous Books

... county (for the colored people were so few that they could not be called a party), and the only struggle for office came in the pursuit of a nomination, which was always equivalent to election. Candidates were chosen at a convention or mass-meeting of the whites and the only figure that the blacks were able to cut in the matter was by reason of a pretended, rather than a real, prejudice against them which was used by the candidates (who ...

— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden

... upon it, system has been piled upon system, learned men have theorised and wrangled about it all their lives, and successive generations have dropped into their graves, leaving the vexed question as unsettled as ever. Every now and then a body of savans or a convention of librarians wrestles with it, ...

— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

... weaknesses; but you could not help feeling in her presence that you were with an affectionate, warm-hearted, honest, good woman. She might not have the refinements of tone and manner which stamp the high-bred gentlewoman of convention; she might evince the deficiencies of an imperfect third-rate education: but she was saved from vulgarity by a certain undefinable grace or person and music of voice,—even when she said or did things ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... public proof of the system was made on May 11, 1844. On that day the Whig National Convention, then in session at Baltimore, had nominated Henry Clay for the Presidency. The telegraph was being built from the Washington end, and was yet miles distant from Baltimore. The first railroad train from Baltimore carried passengers who were ...

— Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... period, when editorials were mostly devoted to discussion as to whether the Democratic Convention (shortly to be held in Chicago) would or would not declare in favor of bi-metallism; when golf was a novel form of recreation in America, and people disputed how to pronounce its name, and pedestrians still turned to stare after an automobile; when, ...

— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell

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