Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds to the authority of tradition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
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- noun A person who adheres to
tradition , especially in cultural or religious practices
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- adjective stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded
- noun one who adheres to traditional views
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Examples
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The hunter, being a traditionalist, is comfortable with that oldest of American traditions, the conquest of the wilderness.
An Alaskan Sheep and Grizzly Hunting Adventure by Philip Caputo 2004
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Yet by the end of the book the dying Alroy speaks in traditionalist, not latitudinarian, terms of Jewish destiny: ‘My people stand apart from other nations, and ever will’ (Pt10Ch22).
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He really could not be called a traditionalist or a "multiculturalist" (to borrow a term from today).
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He spoke of faith and the dispelling of illusion through suffering, but he was no traditionalist, which is why he is probably so misunderstood today by neo-traditionalists like Ashis Nandy.
Sri Aurobindo carried this message of the spirit from Bombay to Bengal, from Baruipur to Kishoreganj Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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He spoke of faith and the dispelling of illusion through suffering, but he was no traditionalist, which is why he is probably so misunderstood today by neo-traditionalists like Ashis Nandy.
Archive 2007-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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He's what's called a traditionalist Catholic, and he's working on this 12-hour epic.
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And, I mean, this is a view that is actually held by a large number of what I would call traditionalist conservatives.
Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America 1997
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A new party, which one might call the traditionalist, had sought to re-establish the old-time order, in the state, in customs, in ideas; to combat the corruption of customs; and of this party Augustus had been the right arm.
Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906
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He could never be characterized as a traditionalist, but neither is he a radical liberal dissenter as was Cardinals Re, Sodano, and Kasper, Levada, and Hummes.
RORATE CÆLI 2010
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Last weekend's announcement by the Vatican that Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunication order his predecessor imposed on four so-called traditionalist bishops has provoked understandable hurt and outrage among Jews around the world.
Clerical Whispers 2009
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