The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conventionalist \Con*ven"tion*al*ist\, n.
One who adheres to a convention or treaty.
One who is governed by conventionalism.
Wiktionary
a. (context philosophy English) Of, pertaining to, or supporting conventionalism n. 1 (context French history English) A member or supporter of the National Convention. 2 (context philosophy English) A supporter or adherent of conventionalism
Usage examples of "conventionalist".
He resembles the old Conventionalist of '93, who said to Napoleon, in 1814, `You bend because your empire is a young stem, weakened by rapid growth.
Sometimes, they force the re-baptism of infants by the conventionalist curé, and shoot at the traditional father.
And as, notwithstanding its decrees, the electoral assemblies have not re-elected a sufficient number of the Conventionalists, it nominates itself, from a list prepared by its Committee of Public Safety, the one hundred and four which are lacking: In this way, both in the council of the Five Hundred, as well as in the council of the Ancients, it secures a clear majority in both the houses of the Legislative Corps.
Furthermore, Conventionalists of the worst species, like Monestier and Foussedoire return to their natal department to govern it as government commissioners.
One year more, as the rulers themselves admit, and not one Conventionalist, not one pure Jacobin, will sit in the Legislative Corps.
They become alarmed on the arrival of the first Third, in October, 1795: "The Conventionalists," writes one of the new deputies,[60] "look upon us as men who will one day give them up to justice.
He resembles the old Conventionalist of ‘93, who said to Napoleon, in 1814, ‘You bend because your empire is a young stem, weakened by rapid growth.