[f. CONVENE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CONVENE; coming together, assembling, etc.

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1659.  Pearson, Creed (1839), 376. The same practice of convening we find continued in the following years.

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1690.  Locke, Govt., II. xii. Any delay of their convening might endanger the public.

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1795.  H. Macneill, Will & Jean, II. xx. Aye at first at the conveening, Moralized on what was right.

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