conventionalization
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The history of wedding ceremonies presents very many instances of conventionalization.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
Here we see the mores raising a special conventionalization to protect a custom which is expedient, but which transgresses the usual taboo.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
Forever debarred all the wider possibilities of movement and poetry these would have given them for interior decoration, Moorish art necessarily stagnated to mere conventionalization of floral and natural subjects.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
Dress used in bathing, sport, the drama, or work is protected by conventionalization.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
The pattern G is given as the next step in the conventionalization.
From The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition by Cole, Fay-Cooper
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