conventionalization
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conventionalization
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The weapon seemed to be a conventionalization of the octopus.
From The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith
In all artistic work there is more or less conventionalization.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
The conventionalization in favor of what is amusing must always be recognized.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
All the phenomena in Hindostan show how completely the moral effect depends on the integrity or decay of conventionalization.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
The occasion calls for a variation from current usage, and the conventionalization, while granting toleration, defines it also, and makes a new law for the exceptional case.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
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