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)
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of conventionalize
First recorded in 1850–55; conventional + -ize
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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
To the true romance the idea of marriage is at first repugnant, will not be thought about, for it seeks to square and conventionalize a great burst of the spirit.
From Hempfield A Novel by David Grayson
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
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 Zelia Nuttall
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
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
"Belasco Collar" At Stony Brook, N. Y., where ministers held a conference last week, the Rev. A. C. Robertson of Louisville, Ky., denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Manikin and Minikin, in Alfred Kreymborg's Manikin and Minikin, are conventionalized puppets representing the light yet half-serious bickerings, jealousies, and quarrellings of human nature.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The Arundel Society have published some meritorious plates of this kind from Angelico,—not, however, paying respect enough to the local colors, but conventionalizing the whole too much into outline.
From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin
Finally the hieratic simplified this form by symbolizing and conventionalizing to a large extent the hieroglyphic characters.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
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
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
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