Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of, pertaining to, or characterized by traditionalism.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, supporting, or pertaining to traditionalism.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. adhering to tradition especially in cultural or religious practices
Etymologies
- traditionalist + -ic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And I told him that is not fun being female and just mentioned the traditionalistic attitude towards females and troubles that brings.”
“The Obama Administration supported the resolution, I would guess, primarily in order to improve the US image with those governments and their traditionalistic Muslim and Islamist sympathizers.”
“At some points, Kerry implies that people who follow highly traditionalistic lifestyles — especially women in patriarchal subcultures — might nonetheless be trapped without any meaningful possibility of exit.”
“I would not want to live under highly traditionalistic norms like those of Mormons or Orthodox Jews.”
“This suspicion of traditionalistic cultures is understandable.”
“One of such groups, Eye of the Child said due to the traditionalistic nature of witchcraft, government introduce traditional courts to resolve problems of this nature.”
“But it was traditionalistic business, if one considers the spirit which animated the entrepreneur: the traditional manner of life, the traditional rate of profit, the traditional amount of work, the traditional manner of regulating the relationships with labour, and the essentially traditional circle of customers and the manner of attracting new ones.”
“It has now entered the conventional wisdom that Democrats must develop a strategy to reach more traditionalistic voters.”
“Riot in Banaras typified both resistance to new technology and the traditionalistic idiom in which this resistance came to be expressed.”
“Ostensibly provoked by the local administration's decision to let a temple collapse as a new waterworks plant was constructed, the rioting crowd attacked not only the waterworks station (emblematic of the health and public works ethos versus traditionalistic understandings of the purity of water in the sacred pilgrimage site of Banaras), but also the railway station, the telegraph lines, and other forms of new technology.”
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