conventionality

Example Sentences

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Conventionality, not humanity, is the new criterion to rationalize the act of killing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Conventionality is therefore an insuperable obstacle, as far as the majority of minds are concerned, to the discovery that the established principles of education are absolutely false.

From The Curse of Education by Gorst, Harold Edward

Conventionality, not to say a most proper and becoming reverence, prevents people by no means ignorant from considering the point.

From A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales by Young, Charles L. (Charles Lawrence), Sir

Conventionality had decreed first that there are brown trees, and next that there cannot be a respectable landscape without a brown tree.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin

Conventionality has all the force of enacted law.

From The Pearl of India by Ballou, Maturin Murray