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v. - Make customary or adapt to customs and traditions.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Greenwich will not straighten its streets nor conventionalise its views.
  • Thus, though we conventionalise practice, we never conventionalise dogma.
  • The way to be untrue to Shakespeare here, as always, is to relax the tension of imagination, to conventionalise, to conceive
  • The reason for this might have been found in the fact that acquired characteristics do not receive the stamp of heredity in one generation — his father was a self-made man, and...
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