All 20 Uses of
convention
in
Dune
- The Great Convention be damned!†
Book 1
- No open defiance of the Convention.†
Book 1 *
- These 'thopters are fairly conventional," Hawat said.†
Book 1 (definition 1)
- He knew the actual no-holds-barred convention that ruled in kanly, but this was the sort of move that could destroy them even as it gave them victory.†
Book 1
- "All else is most conventional," she said.†
Book 1 (definition 1)
- And the Conventions, naturally, support him in this.†
Book 1
- This is the glue of the Great Convention.†
Book 2
- even that convention isn't required.
Book 2 (definition 1) *convention = thing that is regarded as normal
- The language of the Great Convention is clear enough: 'Use of atomics against humans shall be cause for planetary obliteration.'†
Book 3
- The delicacy of his position here, alone and dependent upon the Convention and the dictum familia of the Great Houses, fretted him.†
Book 3
- Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach.†
Book 3
- And he couched his words in the ancient formula: "I, a Duke of a Great House, an Imperial Kinsman, give my word of bond under the Convention.†
Book 3
- You have violated the Convention, used atomics against —†
Book 3
- Later expanded to include those deadly devices permitted under the Guild Peace and Great Convention.†
Book Term
- DICTUM FAMILIA: that rule of the Great Convention which prohibits the slaying of a royal person or member of a Great House by informal treachery.†
Book Term
- GREAT CONVENTION: the universal truce enforced under the power balance maintained by the Guild, the Great Houses, and the Imperium.†
Book Term
- Each rule of the Great convention begins: "The forms must be obeyed . . . "
Book Term (definition 2) *convention = an international agreement
- GUILD: the Spacing Guild, one leg of the political tripod maintaining the Great Convention.†
Book Term
- KANLY: formal feud or vendetta under the rules of the Great Convention carried on according to the strictest limitations.†
Book Term
- WAR OF ASSASSINS: the limited form of warfare permitted under the Great Convention and the Guild Peace.†
Book Term
Definitions:
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(1) (convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(2) (convention as in: The Geneva Convention) a written international agreement
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(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting