All 4 Uses of
convention
in
The Idiot
- In short, their attitude was not that which one would have expected in men who professed to despise all trivialities, all foolish mundane conventions, and indeed everything, except their own personal interests.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- She blamed her own stupid unconventional "eccentricity."†
Chpt 3.1 *
- It strikes me you take Aglaya Ivanovna for some conventional boarding-school girl.†
Chpt 4.8
- Oh, no, he did not think of Aglaya as a boarding-school miss, or a young lady of the conventional type!†
Chpt 4.8
Definitions:
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(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting