All 6 Uses of
convention
in
A Room With A View
- I do detest conventional intercourse.†
Chpt 2conventional = normal or typical
- The truth must be told; she is too unconventional for him.†
Chpt 5 *unconventional = not regarded as normalstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconventional means not and reverses the meaning of conventional. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- You despise my mother—I know you do—because she's conventional and bothers over puddings; but, oh goodness!†
Chpt 17conventional = normal or typical
- —she rose to her feet—"conventional, Cecil, you're that, for you may understand beautiful things, but you don't know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap up me.†
Chpt 17
- I have always flown in the face of the conventions all my life.†
Chpt 6
- That is to say, she was now better able to stifle the emotions of which the conventions and the world disapprove.†
Chpt 16 *
Definitions:
-
(1)
(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting
-
(2)
(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
-
(3)
(convention as in: The Geneva Convention) a written international agreement
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)