different between convention vs deliberation

English

Etymology

Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventi? (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveni? (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?v?n.??n/, /?k?n?v?n.??n/

Noun

convention (plural conventions)

1. A meeting or gathering.
2. A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.

3. The convening of a formal meeting.
4. A formal agreement, contract or pact.
5. (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.

6. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

   • In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
     placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
     (40)      VP ? V AP (PP)
     (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be
     optional.)

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Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conventi?, conventi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.v??.sj??/

Noun

convention f (plural conventions)

1. convention, agreement
2. convention (formal meeting)

3. convention (conventionally standardised choice)

Derived terms

• convention collective

Related terms

• conventionalisme m
• conventionnel
• conventionner
• convenir

Further reading

• “convention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Old French deliberation, from Latin deliberatioMorphologically deliberate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??l?b???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: de?lib?er?a?tion

Noun

deliberation (countable and uncountable, plural deliberations)

1. The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.
   • 1863, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, 72

     The oftener the measure is brought under examination, the greater the diversity in the situations of those who are to examine it, the less must be the danger of those errors which flow from want of due deliberation, or of those missteps which proceed from the contagion of some common passion or interest.

2. Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure

Derived terms

• deliberational
• predeliberation

Translations

Middle French

Noun

deliberation f (plural deliberations)

1. deliberation; contemplation

Descendants

• French: délibération