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conventional 1. Law based upon the agreement or consent of parties 2. Arts represented in a simplified or generalized way; conventionalized 3. Bridge another word for convention How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| If they continued to sing like their great predecessor of romantic themes, they were drawn as by a kind of magnetic attraction into the Homeric style and manner of treatment, and became mere echoes of the Homeric voice: in a word, Homer had so completely exhausted the epic genre, that after him further efforts were doomed to be merely conventional. " So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs! Ellmother burst out--and then, when it was too late, remembered the conventional restraints appropriate to the occasion. |
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