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convention Noun 1. the established view of what is thought to be proper behaviour 2. an accepted rule or method: a convention used by printers 3. a formal agreement or contract between people and nations 4. a large formal assembly of a group with common interests [Latin conventio an assembling] Convention an assembly, especially a meeting of representatives of some profession, society, or religious political organization, 1552. See also congress. Examples: convention of estates, 1651; of islands, 1651; of exquisite lineaments, 1592; for prayer, 1649.
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convention Translations (agreement) → Abkommen nt |
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| Still continuing no less attached to union than enamored of liberty, they observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more remotely the latter; and being pursuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened the late convention at Philadelphia, to take that important subject under consideration. This speech so pleased the other Members of the convention that, actuated by a magnanimous impulse, they sprang to their feet and left the hall. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. |
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