Both Uses
tradition
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
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- According to his records, Shay Bourne was raised in foster homes, so he can't claim that he was reared in one religious tradition that fostered organ donation.†
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- But it seems to me that Shay Bourne is standing in a tradition similar to the ones the Gnostic Christians did nearly two thousand years ago.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(tradition) 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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)