Definitions
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- noun One who makes or adheres to tradition; a passer-on of old habits, opinions, etc.
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- noun A person who upholds a
tradition
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from buckstopper wrote 1 year 6 weeks ago to all traditionist: I say again if its your thing to go without technogadgets - kudos to you and you fieldcraft.
K-9 G.P.S. 2008
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Abdallah, son of the Caliph Omar and noted as a traditionist.
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The latter was a black and a native of Cufa during the first century (A. H) and is still famous as a traditionist.
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His own authority as a traditionist was cited by Amr ibn Dinár, Al-Aamash, Al-Auzái, and a great number of others who had heard him teach.
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The tradition by Nasáee (died 303 A.H.) from Anas (died 90 A.H.) regarding the affair of a slave is equally contradicted by the tradition from Ayesha, the widow of the Prophet, narrated by the traditionist
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For example: Ibn Omair, a trustworthy traditionist, when, once, he was ill, and a person sent his excuses for not going to visit him, answered: "I cannot reproach a person for not visiting me, whom I myself should not go to visit were he sick."
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-- One of the two principal sects of Muhammadans who follow the orthodox traditions, Sunni meaning traditionist.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
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[FN#196] Abou Abdallah ibn el Casim el Hashimi, surnamed Abou el Ainaa, a blind traditionist and man of letters of Bassora, in the ninth century, and one of the most celebrated wits of his day.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879
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[FN#121] A well-known grammarian and traditionist of the time, afterwards governor of part of Khorassan, under the Khalif El
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879
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[FN#168] "Ka'ab of the Scribes," a well-known traditionist and religious poet who died (A.H. 32) in the Caliphate of Osman.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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