convention
noun
a large formal meeting or assembly, as of members, representatives, or delegates, for discussion of and action on particular matters of common concern.
unconvention
-
a word derived from
convention.
Example Sentences
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Painters all over America had deduced from Abstract Expressionism that art, to be sincere, must be thick and splashy, so that the galleries were full of conventional signs for unconvention.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had quarreled some days ago, for Mr. Pennington’s lazy humor had turned to a reckless unconvention which had somewhat startled her.
From The Maker of Opportunities by George Gibbs
A sense of the violence done to her traditions hung like a millstone around her neck; and yet Patricia found herself peeping avidly through the hole to listen to the seductive voice of unconvention.
From The Maker of Opportunities by George Gibbs
A woman of your training perhaps cannot grasp the honesty of my unconvention.
From The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
She was thinking how different everything might have been, but for that unfortunate unconvention.
From Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins
