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traditionalism

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[ UK /tɹɐdˈɪʃənəlˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
  2. adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters)
  3. the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions

How To Use traditionalism In A Sentence

  • One wonders what the point of his "traditionalism" is if the Holy Gospels can become "wacky novelties". 10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002
  • Pockets of strong rural traditionalism and community life survived, not least because of the lack of modern services.
  • What likewise astonishes is how Victorian, prudish, and ultra-conservative in thought most of us really are despite the claim to modernity and non-traditionalism.
  • I'm not sure about that, but I am hopeful that Anglican theology, with its middle way between liberal rationalism and dogmatic traditionalism, can save the historical quest for Jesus.
  • Fundamentalists reject a larger portion of secular society, maintain strong commitments to strict literalism, premillennial dispensationalism, and moral traditionalism.
  • In becoming that figure, he also brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
  • Like many other Belgian architects he went from traditionalism to an opulent non-mainstream modernism - there don't seem to have been many Blomfieldesque ragers against Modernismus here.
  • Dr George believes that one of the factors contributing to the high degree of backwardness among the Swazi is the 'autocratic rule of a conservative chief dedicated to traditionalism'. The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 15
  • If this perspective on the conflict is right one of the major problems is the lack of mutual understanding between those inclined to traditionalism and those inclined towards humanism.
  • Former President Fidel Ramos said Arroyo’s "ambiguousness" towards her population policy "has put mothers’ lives and health, together with their babies, at risk for the sake of political expediency and religious traditionalism. Archive 2008-07-01
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