All 6 Uses of
tradition
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- I believe it's a sort of legal rule, a sort of legal tradition—for all investigating lawyers—to begin their attack from afar, with a trivial, or at least an irrelevant subject, so as to encourage, or rather, to divert the man they are cross-examining, to disarm his caution and then all at once to give him an unexpected knock-down blow with some fatal question.†
Chpt 4.5
- It's a sacred tradition, mentioned, I fancy, in all the manuals of the art?†
Chpt 4.5
- And as for our legal tradition, as you so wittily called it, I thoroughly agree with you.†
Chpt 4.5 *
- Perhaps the chief element was that peculiar "poor man's pride," which compels many poor people to spend their last savings on some traditional social ceremony, simply in order to do "like other people," and not to "be looked down upon."†
Chpt 5.2traditional = relating to practice or belief that is long-established or was previously long-established OR relating to stories passed down through generations
- Besides the traditional rice and honey, there were three or four dishes, one of which consisted of pancakes, all prepared in Amalia Ivanovna's kitchen.†
Chpt 5.2
- There are no sacred traditions amongst us, especially in the educated class, Avdotya Romanovna.†
Chpt 6.5traditions = long-established or previously long-established practices or beliefs
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