All 3 Uses of
tradition
in
Pygmalion
- 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.†
Act 5 *traditions = long-established or previously long-established practices or beliefs
- Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.†
Act 5
- And yet its tradition made her regard a marriage with anyone within her reach as an unbearable humiliation.†
Act 5
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