All 6 Uses of
tradition
in
Babbitt
- It was one of the differences between Thompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the-minute and otherwise perfected modern.†
Chpt 6
- No, what I fight in Zenith is standardization of thought, and, of course, the traditions of competition.†
Chpt 7 *
- His power was the greater because he was not hindered by scruples, by either the vice or the virtue of the older Puritan tradition.†
Chpt 15
- The books were most of them Standard Sets, with the correct and traditional touch of dim blue, dim gold, and glossy calf-skin.†
Chpt 17
- The fire was exactly correct and traditional; a small, quiet, steady fire, reflected by polished fire-irons.†
Chpt 17
- Instantly all the indignations which had been dominating him and the spiritual dramas through which he had struggled became pallid and absurd before the ancient and overwhelming realities, the standard and traditional realities, of sickness and menacing death, the long night, and the thousand steadfast implications of married life.†
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