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Definition
something regarded as normal or typical
- Henry Sweet, then a young man, lacked their sweetness of character: he was about as conciliatory to conventional mortals as Ibsen or Samuel Butler.Preface (17% in)
- People she had thought deeply religious, and had tried to conciliate on that tack with disastrous results, suddenly took an interest in her, and revealed a hostility to conventional religion which she had never conceived possible except among the most desperate characters.Act 5 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "convention" in Pygmalion.
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