All 3 Uses of
tradition
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.†
Chpt 5 *
- It was a lonely place, and an hour made solemn by old traditions.†
Chpt 25
- It is falling now; it will still be falling when all these things shall have sunk down the afternoon of history, and the twilight of tradition, and been swallowed up in the thick night of oblivion.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(tradition) a long-established or previously long-established practice or belief
and/or:
one or more practices, beliefs, or stories passed down through generations within a specific culture or group