All 9 Uses of
tradition
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- I, I and I. I. A.E.I.O.U. —Do you mean to fly in the face of the tradition of three centuries?†
Chpt 9 *
- The distinguished scientist Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus, thereby causing the elastic pores of the corpora cavernosa to rapidly dilate in such a way as to instantaneously facilitate the flow of blood to that part of the human anatomy known as the peni†
Chpt 12
- The wellknown and highly respected worker in the cause of our old tongue, Mr Joseph M'Carthy Hynes, made an eloquent appeal for the resuscitation of the ancient Gaelic sports and pastimes, practised morning and evening by Finn MacCool, as calculated to revive the best traditions of manly strength and prowess handed down to us from ancient ages.†
Chpt 12traditions = long-established or previously long-established practices or beliefs
- To those who create themselves wits at the cost of feminine delicacy (a habit of mind which he never did hold with) to them he would concede neither to bear the name nor to herit the tradition of a proper breeding: while for such that, having lost all forbearance, can lose no more, there remained the sharp antidote of experience to cause their insolency to beat a precipitate and inglorious retreat.†
Chpt 14
- The hypothesis of a plasmic memory, advanced by the Caledonian envoy and worthy of the metaphysical traditions of the land he stood for, envisaged in such cases an arrest of embryonic development at some stage antecedent to the human.†
Chpt 14traditions = long-established or previously long-established practices or beliefs
- Visually, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair.†
Chpt 17traditional = relating to practice or belief that is long-established or was previously long-established OR relating to stories passed down through generations
- Auditively, Bloom's: The traditional accent of the ecstasy of catastrophe.†
Chpt 17
- In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness.†
Chpt 17
- Hence, in passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness, their differences were similar.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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
and/or:
one or more practices, beliefs, or stories passed down through generations within a specific culture or group