[f. next + -ATION.] The action of conventionalizing.
1852. Morning Chron., 24 Dec., 3/6. In Byzantine ornament we find the most quaint conventionalizations of natural objects, and it was only as they approached the decadence of Christian art that those quaint conventionalizations were abandoned for more direct imitations of nature.
1880. Academy, 12 June, 446. Bold conventionalisation of trees and flowers.
1890. Athenæum, 6 Sept., 328/1. The happy medium between conventionalization to excess and raw naturalism.
