conventionalist

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Still, beyond collectability, style and functionality, Eastside Golf’s founders believe there are bigger takeaways for the conventionalist sport.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022

The conventionalist would seek it in moral obliquity; the radical, in a temperament that is irked by the superficialities that comprise so large a part of conventional standards.

From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay

"Not at all," said Barriovero the conventionalist, very gravely.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

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

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various

Barriovero, a conventionalist, according to Grandmontagne—yes, and how keen the scent of this American for such matters!—attended the opening of a radical club in the Calle del Príncipe with a party of friends.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)