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- noun Plural form of
conventionality .
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Examples
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He painted religious tableaux, like all those Renaissance painters who'd gone before him; but to my mind Caravaggio's take on these conventionalities is essentially Modern.
A Wee Happy Glow Hal Duncan 2005
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He painted religious tableaux, like all those Renaissance painters who'd gone before him; but to my mind Caravaggio's take on these conventionalities is essentially Modern.
Archive 2005-09-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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In fending off the offer he was so plainly ready to renew, had she not sacrificed to one of those abstract notions of honour that might be called the conventionalities of the moral life?
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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In fending off the offer he was so plainly ready to renew, had she not sacrificed to one of those abstract notions of honour that might be called the conventionalities of the moral life?
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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In fending off the offer he was so plainly ready to renew, had she not sacrificed to one of those abstract notions of honour that might be called the conventionalities of the moral life?
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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It seemed to her that what people called the conventionalities were a device of the far-seeing eye of the Most High to regulate the relations of His children.
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In fending off the offer he was so plainly ready to renew, had she not sacrificed to one of those abstract notions of honour that might be called the conventionalities of the moral life?
House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1899
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Their pitiable disregard—especially among the men—for the finer conventionalities of social life, as well as for the regularities restricting sexual indulgencies, has become a by-word.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Its pleasures are insipid, its pursuits wearisome, its conventionalities, duties, and mutual dependence alike tedious and disgusting.
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Its pleasures are insipid, its pursuits wearisome, its conventionalities, duties, and mutual dependence alike tedious and disgusting.
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