Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The spirit or practice of routine; a rigid and unvarying course of action or opinion; routine method or manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.
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- noun
prevalence of, ordomination byroutine
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Examples
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Underlying causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster include complacency and "routinism" the tendency of those within a large organization to avoid testing established policies.
Marine Log News 2010
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He concedes that the personal and emotional focus “can easily degenerate into voyeurism or exoticism or routinism or disillusionment.”
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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These people stand in these paths of traditionalism and routinism, just where their forefathers left them, occupying all their time in admiring the wisdom and benevolence and devotion of their forefathers, instead of imitating _their aggressive faith_ and MARCHING ON TO THE CONQUEST OF
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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These people stand in these paths of traditionalism and routinism, just where their forefathers left them, occupying all their time in admiring the wisdom and benevolence and devotion of their forefathers, instead of imitating _their aggressive faith_ and MARCHING ON TO THE CONQUEST OF
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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These people stand in these paths of traditionalism and routinism, just where their forefathers left them, occupying all their time in admiring the wisdom and benevolence and devotion of their forefathers, instead of imitating _their aggressive faith_ and MARCHING ON TO THE CONQUEST OF
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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