All 4 Uses of
convention
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- I gathered through overhearing my parents that Brother Fowles had entered into unconventional alliances with the local people, and too he was a Yankee.†
Chpt 1 *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.
- Once he asked me suddenly as we sat mulling over the pumpkins, "Leah, do you know what they spent the last Bible convention in Atlanta arguing about?"
Chpt 1convention = formal gathering
- They debated about the size of heaven, at the Bible convention.
Chpt 1
- Inexplicably, he sounded put out with the men who brought their adding machines to the Bible convention, and possibly with the Bible itself.
Chpt 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