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Tradition vs. Values

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Traditionnoun

A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.

Valuesnoun

beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something);

‘he has very conservatives values’;

Traditionnoun

A commonly held system. en

Traditionnoun

The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

Traditionverb

(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

Traditionnoun

The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

Traditionnoun

The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.

Traditionnoun

Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.

‘Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect?’; ‘Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.’;

Traditionnoun

An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.

‘Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered.’;

Traditionnoun

That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.

‘Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.’;

Traditionverb

To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

‘The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.’;

Traditionnoun

an inherited pattern of thought or action

Traditionnoun

a specific practice of long standing

Tradition

A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of folklore, common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes (like lawyers' wigs or military officers' spurs), but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings.

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