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conventionists

conventionists is the plural of conventionist.

Meaning of conventionist

Noun

conventionist (plural conventionists)

  1. One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
    • It must needs be a hostile kind of a world, when the buyer (if it be but of a sorry post-chaise) cannot go forth with the seller thereof into the street to terminate the difference betwixt them, but he instantly falls into the same frame of mind and views his conventionist with the same sort of...1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, page 40
  2. One who supports a convention or assembly.

Questions about conventionists

What is conventionists the plural of?
Conventionists is the plural of conventionist.

Words near conventionists in the dictionary

  1. conventioners
  2. conventiongoer
  3. conventiongoers
  4. conventionism
  5. conventionist
  6. conventionists
  7. conventionnel
  8. conventionnels
  9. conventions
  10. Conventionsthaler
  11. Conventionsthalers

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