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Definition of Conventions
1. convention [n] - See also: convention
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conventions
Literary usage of Conventions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"Con- THE public compacts, called conventions, articles of agrw- ventions ment, &c.,
... Treaties, conventions, and agreements are all public engagements, ..."
2. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882 by Frederick Douglass, John Lobb (1882)
"Anti-slavery conventions held in parts of New England, and in some of the Middle
and Western States—Mobs, Incidents, &o. THE year 1848 was one of remarkable ..."
3. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1914)
"In the last two years we have held three regular State Fruit Growers conventions,
one at San Jose, another at Davis at the University Farm and the last at ..."
4. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"conventions and Declaration of Second Hague Peace Conference. projectiles ...
All these conventions, however, and the first of these declarations have been ..."
5. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1902)
"As the popular vote is confined to candidates selected in the national conventions,
the attention of the whole country, excited to the highest pitch by the ..."
6. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1897)
"NOMINATING conventions IN PENNSYLVANIA A NATIONAL nominating convention and all
that such a system of delegated authority implies was the outgrowth of state ..."
7. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1922)
"All the minor parties as a rule put planks for woman suffrage in their plat
forms.2 Before the conventions in 1904 the board of the National American Woman ..."
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