conventionalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make conventional.
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Art. to represent in a conventional manner.
verb
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to make conventional
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to simplify or stylize (a design, decorative device, etc)
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Etymology
Origin of conventionalize
First recorded in 1850–55; conventional + -ize
Example Sentences
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Yet she did not know; she did not want to conventionalize him; there was something rather fine about his ruggedness.
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Bindloss, Harold
I like to draw from flowers and leaves and things about me; conventionalize them sometimes, and sometimes paint them just as they are,—in soft silk stitches.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
I'll just make studies now, and this winter I'll conventionalize them and work them into patterns.
From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene
Whichever group may be the oldest the art is there already advanced and the decoration has taken forms which must have occupied many kinds of workers to conventionalize from natural objects.”
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
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 Dodd, Lee Wilson
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