See Also: peradventure(dictionary)

convention (iou) and peradventure (iou)


convention (iou)



convention noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin conventio(n-) meeting, covenant, from convent-: see CONVENT verb, -ION.]
I.
An assembly or gathering of people; esp. a formal meeting for deliberation, legislation, etc. LME.
T. Dreiser There was a convention of dentists in the city.
b. spec. (Hist.) A meeting of Parliament, or of the Scottish Estates, without the formal summons usually required. M16.
c. In the US, an assembly of delegates of a political party for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the presidency, etc. E19.
national convention: see NATIONAL adjective.
The action of coming together, meeting, or assembling; an assemblage, a union. L15-L18.
J. Howell Venice is..a Convention of little Ilands.
The action of summoning before a person in authority. L16-E19.
The action of convening a meeting etc. M17.
II.
An agreement or covenant between parties; an agreement creating legal relations. LME.
Geneva Convention(s): see GENEVA noun1.
b. spec. A diplomatic agreement between States, now esp. one less formal than a treaty. E17.
c. spec. An agreement between belligerents as to the suspension of hostilities, exchange or treatment of prisoners, etc. L18.
General agreement or consent, deliberate or implicit, as to any custom, usage, behaviour, etc. L18.
G. B. Shaw A man..is by convention the master and lawgiver of the hearthstone.
b. Accepted social behaviour, esp. if merely formal or repressively artificial. M19.
A generally accepted rule or practice based on custom, usage, etc. L18.
G. Greene I may have been christenedit's a social convention isn't it? L. P. Hartley Bound by the moral conventions of the eighteenth century.
b. Cards. A prearranged method of play or bidding, esp. in bridge, used to convey information. M19.
conventio'neer noun (orig. US) = conventioner M20.
conventioner noun a member of a convention, a person who attends conventions L17.
conventionist noun (a) a party to a convention or agreement; (b) = conventioner: M18.

peradventure (iou)



peradventure adverb & noun. arch. exc. joc. ME.
[Old French per or par auenture (see PAR preposition, PER preposition, ADVENTURE noun); in 15-16 assim. to Latin.]
A. adverb.
= PERCHANCE adverb 1. ME-E17.
= PERHAPS adverb 2. ME.
if peradventure if it should chance that.
Lytton Unless, peradventure, their wives were comely.
= PERHAPS adverb 1. ME.
Hobbes It may peradventure be thought, there was never such a time. B. Breytenbach Peradventure they were the only two windows in the house.
b. noun. The possibility of a thing being so or not; (an) uncertainty, (a) doubt; a chance. Freq. in beyond peradventure, beyond all peradventure, past peradventure, past all peradventure. M16.
W. Cowper Some to be saved..others to be left to a peradventure. J. L. Motley This was now proved beyond peradventure. H. B. Forman The poem..ends with shadowiness and peradventure.
? Cf. PERCASE, PERCHANCE, PERHAPS.