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    It has been the Christian tradition to practice communion for thousands of years.
    tradition = a practice passed down through generations within a specific culture or group
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    The Jewish tradition is not to work on Saturday.
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    My parents converted their traditional Investment Retirement Account to a Roth Investment Retirement Account to minimize future taxes.
    traditional = relating to practice that was previously long-established
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    I just know that the Tradition is always right.  (source)
    Tradition = a practice passed down through generations
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    It is traditional to cut away to the faces of the tributes during the speech.  (source)
    traditional = normal
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    Most of our people, especially the older ones who have grown up within the traditions that bind our community, will never betray their ancestors, their way of life.†  (source)
    traditions = long-established or previously long-established practices or beliefs
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    I had known many men, my grandfathers included, who were traditionally dressed Jews.†  (source)
    traditionally = the manner in which things have generally been done in the past
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    Then there were the very important persons who asked the visitor to leave a brief note of his case and informed him they would decide on it in due course; the triflers, who offered him billeting warrants or gave the addresses of lodgings; the red-tape merchants, who made him fill up a form and promptly interred it in a file; overworked officials, who raised their arms to heaven, and much-harassed officials who simply looked away; and, finally, the traditionalists-these were by far the greatest number-who referred Rambert to another office or recommended some new method of approach.†  (source)
    traditionalists = people who believe in doing things the way they have generally been done in the past
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    I think he's more of a traditionalist.†  (source)
    traditionalist = someone who believes in doing things the way they have generally been done in the past
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    At least five hundred nontraditional young people showed up, along with too many hard-core drug users and burnt-out acid freaks who didn't care about anything except their next fix, so Stephen moved his flock again to a rock hall on the beach where they had enough room to teach two thousand in their meetings.†  (source)
    nontraditional = not relating to practice or belief that is long-established or was previously long-established
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nontraditional means not and reverses the meaning of traditional. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    This list is particularly heavy on the Hebrew, with a noticeable trend toward Irish traditionalism.†  (source)
    traditionalism = the belief in doing things the way they have generally been done in the past
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    And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language—that man makes one in a whole nation's census—a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.†  (source)
    untraditionally = not the manner in which things have generally been done in the past
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untraditionally means not and reverses the meaning of traditionally. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    This is a Dauntless tradition, so I suggest you take it seriously.  (source)
    tradition = long-established practice
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