conventionalize

It was as if she had secretly determined—God knows from what pressure of lonely sorrow—to conventionalize her life, to present the world hereafter nothing but an even surface of unobtrusive conformity.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

"It is the incessant, continuous pressure of the herd ... to conventionalize its methods of acquiring the gratification of its needs."

From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight

"I thought it was only women who were privileged to change their mind," she began brightly; but Arkwright ignored her attempt to conventionalize the situation.

From Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

I'll just make studies now, and this winter I'll conventionalize them and work them into patterns.

From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

We do not separate the features as frequently as did that ancient people, but we conventionalize them as often.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay

They're perfectly legitimate to study and they're interesting, but the reason I'm less interested in them is because they're conventionalized.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023

There are displays, often conventionalized within the norms of a culture: displays of power, strength, wealth, beauty, generosity, cleverness, and social status.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2013

He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.”

From Slate ● May 18, 2013

The failure of conventionalized reason to explain two world wars or Jungian voyages into the unconscious must seem tragic as well as absurd.

From Time Magazine Archive

From their hands it passed to the Assyrians, who simplified some characters and conventionalized many more, and used the script during the entire period of their national existence from 1500 B.C. to 607 B.C.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

As to what Davidson might have become under the conventionalizing influences of an official position, it would be idle to speculate.

From Memories and Studies by Henry James

Further, the restricted action of Rowe's play causes a conventionalizing of the characters.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

Art for art, insisted upon in this way, could only end in conventionalizing the very thing it was meant to assist.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

This justifies the habit of conventionalizing natural forms, and the tendency of some kinds of hieratic art, like the Byzantine or Egyptian, to affect a rigid symmetry of posture.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

The modifying or conventionalizing forces are, therefore, quite vague.

From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by William Henry Holmes