- The act of coming together; the state of being
together; union; coalition. - General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom;
usage; conventionality. - A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of
delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, --
civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical. - An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or
estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly
which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the
throne to be abdicated by James II. - An agreement or contract less formal than, or
preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of
armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states;
also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a
postal convention between two governments.
Meaning of 'convention' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . convention
[ n]
Meaning (1): - something regarded as a normative example
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Post conventional morality Post conventional morality is the third level of the American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development. At this level moral
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