All 4 Uses of
convention
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "That's all conventional, that's all relative, merely a way of looking at it," he thought in a flash, but only on the top surface of his mind, while he was shuddering all over, "there, I've got it on!†
Chpt 2.1conventional = normal or typical
- Then a man may do nothing but harm to his neighbour in this world, and is prevented from doing the tiniest bit of good by trivial conventional formalities.†
Chpt 4.1 *
- You know, Terebyeva (who is in the community now) was blamed because when she left her family and...devoted...herself, she wrote to her father and mother that she wouldn't go on living conventionally and was entering on a free marriage and it was said that that was too harsh, that she might have spared them and have written more kindly.†
Chpt 5.1
- I am not going on principle, not to take part in the revolting convention of memorial dinners, that's why!†
Chpt 5.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting
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(2)
(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(3)
(convention as in: The Geneva Convention) a written international agreement
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)