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Webster 1913 Edition
Conventionalism
Con-ven′tion-al-ism
,Noun.
1.
That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
All the artifice and
conventionalism
of life. Hawthorne.
They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, – wrapped in
conventionalisms
, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standard. F. W. Robertson.