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Convention

noun

A large formal assembly.

Something regarded as a normative example. Synonyms: formula, normal, pattern, rule. "Violence is the rule not the exception" , "His formula for impressing visitors"

(diplomacy) an international agreement.

Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional. Synonyms: conventionalism, conventionality.

The act of convening. Synonym: convening.

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"Convention" Quotes from Famous Books

... to turn from peaceful occupations and take his share in patriotic efforts for parliamentary refortn; this reform was pressed on the parliament sitting in Dublin by a delegation from a convention of the Irish volunteers. They were raised in 1778 during the American War, when England had not enough troops for the defence of Ireland. The principal Irish nobility and gentry enrolled themselves, and ...

— Richard Lovell Edgeworth - A Selection From His Memoir • Richard Lovell Edgeworth

... not only one of the most beautiful cities in New England, but is especially adapted for a great convention like the Fifty-fourth Annual gathering of the American Missionary Association. With cordial hospitality the members of the churches and citizens of Springfield have opened their homes and hearts to welcome the ...

— The American Missionary -- Volume 54, No. 4, October, 1900 • Various

... "to be a fraternity of great antiquity, by a convention agreed upon between them and the Dean and Chapter of St. Martin's-le-Grand, about the reign of Richard I., at which time I imagine it to have been an Adulterine Guild, seeing it was only incorporated by letters patent of Edward I., by the appellation of 'The Wardens, or Keepers and Commonalty ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... be remembered that the terms of Villafranca, in so far as the question of armed intervention was concerned, had never been finally ratified; and it was Napoleon's wish that the European Powers should form a Congress at Zuerich, at which the Convention would acquire the stability of a European treaty, and the nature of the proposed Italian Federation be finally defined. Lord John and Palmerston, while protesting against the clause of the treaty which, by including Venice in the Federation, ...

— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell

... Lawd By'on evva qua'led with his lady, Mistoo Itchlin. But I s'pose you know 'tis but a slandeh of the pwess. Yesseh. As, faw instance, thass anotheh slandeh of the pwess that the delegates qua'led ad the Chawleston convention. They only pwetend to qua'l; so, by that way, to mizguide those Abolish-nists. Mistoo Itchlin, I am p'ojecting to 'ite some obitua' 'emawks about that Lady By'on, but I scass know w'etheh to 'ite them in the poetic style aw in the p'osaic. Which ...

— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable

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