conventionalism

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

But this belongs to the habit of our nation, impatient, to a fault, of precedents and conventionalisms.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 by Various

Second, he erred in disregarding and satirising puritanical conventionalisms.

From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Runciman, Walter

He abolishes the usual human distinctions, brings all conventionalisms into solution, and loves and celebrates hardly any human attributes save those elementary ones common to all members of the race.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William

All that he writes indeed is quite free from the conventionalisms to which authorship as a profession is sadly liable.

From A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Field, Eugene

We do not rate highly the dry and cheerless conventionalisms of etiquette, but in their origin, they were the fruit of truth, and love.

From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Adler, Felix