All 3 Uses of
convention
in
Great Expectations
- I remember Mrs. Hubble as a little curly sharp-edged person in sky-blue, who held a conventionally juvenile position, because she had married Mr. Hubble,—I don't know at what remote period,—when she was much younger than he.†
Chpt 4 *
- According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true.†
Chpt 29
- I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds; but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool.†
Chpt 57
Definition:
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(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical