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Traditionalism

noun
1.
Strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings.  Synonym: traditionality.
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.






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"Traditionalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Brandon isn't finished yet—by no manner of means. He still has most of the town behind him and a big majority with the Cathedral people. He stands for what they think or don't think—old ideas, conservatism, every established dogma you can put your hand on, bad music, traditionalism, superstition and carelessness. It is not Brandon himself we are fighting, but ...
— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole

... wife the violence of this disaster; he was quite capable, too, of feeling how deeply she was stirred and hurt; but, a born pragmatist, confronting life always in the experimental spirit, he was impatient of the: "How awful!" attitude. And this streak of her father's ascetic traditionalism in Gratian always roused in him a wish to break it up. If she had not been his wife he would have admitted at once that he might just as well try and alter the bone-formation of her head, as break down such a fundamental trait of character, but, being his wife, he naturally ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... traditionalism had not prevented humanism from penetrating Paris also during the last quarter of the fifteenth century. Refinement of Latin style and the taste for classic poetry here, too, had their fervent champions, just as ...
— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga



Words linked to "Traditionalism" :   religion, academism, attachment, academicism, religious belief, traditionalistic, traditionalist, adherence, scholasticism, adhesion, faith, orthodoxy, philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory, traditionality



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