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

"After all, you're a conventionalist, and I rather thought you were not."

From Lister's Great Adventure by Bindloss, Harold

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)

He was very far, however, from being the conventionalist of those days, and the younger students used to look greatly askance at him.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

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