conventionalize

We do not separate the features as frequently as did that ancient people, but we conventionalize them as often.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay

Yet she did not know; she did not want to conventionalize him; there was something rather fine about his ruggedness.

From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

To the true romance the idea of marriage is at first repugnant, will not be thought about, for it seeks to square and conventionalize a great burst of the spirit.

From Hempfield A Novel by David Grayson

"I thought it was only women who were privileged to change their mind," she began brightly; but Arkwright ignored her attempt to conventionalize the situation.

From Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

It was as if she had secretly determined—God knows from what pressure of lonely sorrow—to conventionalize her life, to present the world hereafter nothing but an even surface of unobtrusive conformity.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

They're perfectly legitimate to study and they're interesting, but the reason I'm less interested in them is because they're conventionalized.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023

There are displays, often conventionalized within the norms of a culture: displays of power, strength, wealth, beauty, generosity, cleverness, and social status.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2013

He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.”

From Slate ● May 18, 2013

You get a highly conventionalized narrative of golden oldies that seems both too extensive and not extensive enough.

From Time Magazine Archive

That was its original motive, but it has been conventionalized into a feast formally celebrating the reign of Flora.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

The Arundel Society have published some meritorious plates of this kind from Angelico,—not, however, paying respect enough to the local colors, but conventionalizing the whole too much into outline.

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin

The modifying or conventionalizing forces are, therefore, quite vague.

From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by William Henry Holmes

Art for art, insisted upon in this way, could only end in conventionalizing the very thing it was meant to assist.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

Finally the hieratic simplified this form by symbolizing and conventionalizing to a large extent the hieroglyphic characters.

From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar

This justifies the habit of conventionalizing natural forms, and the tendency of some kinds of hieratic art, like the Byzantine or Egyptian, to affect a rigid symmetry of posture.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana