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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
- When I met him afterwards, for the first time for many years, I found to my astonishment that he, who had been a quite tolerably presentable young man, had actually managed by sheer scorn to alter his personal appearance until he had become a sort of walking repudiation of Oxford and all its traditions.Preface (31% in)
- Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.Act 5 (68% in)
- And yet its tradition made her regard a marriage with anyone within her reach as an unbearable humiliation.Act 5 (83% in)
There are no more uses of "tradition" in Pygmalion.
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