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conventionalist

/kuhn-ven-shuh-nl/US // kənˈvɛn ʃə nl //UK // (kənˈvɛnʃənəl) //

传统主义者,传统派,传统主义者,常规派

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
    • : pertaining to convention or general agreement; established by general consent or accepted usage; arbitrarily determined: conventional symbols.
    • : ordinary rather than different or original: conventional phraseology.
    • : not using, making, or involving nuclear weapons or energy; nonnuclear: conventional warfare.
    • : Art. in accordance with an accepted manner, model, or tradition. represented in a generalized or simplified manner.
    • : of or relating to a convention, agreement, or compact.
    • : Law. resting on consent, express or implied.
    • : of or relating to a convention or assembly.

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Examples

  • The son of a Conventionalist who had not favored the King's death.

  • Sometimes, they force the re-baptism of infants by the conventionalist cur, and shoot at the traditional father.

  • It was evident John Grier's act was thought by the conventionalist to be a wicked blunder.

  • Romme (brother of the Conventionalist, principal author of the Calendar) laid the foundations of our very important science.

  • He would have been a conventionalist and epicurean, unless he had been a seer.