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Word Meanings - CONVENTIONALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

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  • ETIQUETTE
    The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. The pompous etiquette to the
  • FASHION-MONGERING
    Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
  • FASHIONED
    Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
  • FASHION-MONGER
    One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
  • FASHIONABLY
    In a fashionable manner.
  • FASHIONABLENESS
    State of being fashionable.
  • CONVENTIONALITY
    The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
  • FASHION
    orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See 1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
  • FASHIONABLE
    1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy;
  • BREEDING
    1. The act or process of generating or bearing. 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge.
  • BREEDER
    1. One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham. 2. A cause. "The breeder of my sorrow." Shak.
  • FASHIONLESS
    Having no fashion.
  • FASHIONIST
    An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. Fuller.
  • BREEDBATE
    One who breeds or originates quarrels. "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak.
  • BREED
    brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. brüten. See 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead
  • FASHIONER
    One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott.
  • INTERBREED
    To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
  • CROSSBREED
    1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
  • OVERBREED
    To breed to excess.
  • REFASHIONMENT
    The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. Leigh Hunt.
  • UPBREED
    To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.
  • HALF-BREED
    Half-blooded.
  • OLD-FASHIONED
    Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl. "Old-fashioned men of wit." Addison. This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow.
  • INFASHIONABLE
    Unfashionable. Beau. & Fl.
  • IMBREED
    To generate within; to inbreed. Hakewill.

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