Conventionalities
[kən,venʃə'nælɪti:z]
Definition
(pl. ) of Conventionality
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Examples
- Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Those Furies, the conventionalities, being thus appeased, he left her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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