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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
- A commonly held system.
- The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
Verb
- (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Exempel
- Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged.
- Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
- After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death.
- A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
- The following story is [...] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
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