custom-bound

They were deeply custom-bound and equally deeply mired in their notions of medicine and magic.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

As flexible as my King is, he is surprisingly custom-bound.

The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995

This authority differs, therefore, not only from that of parents over their children, but also from that of elders or chiefs in small custom-bound communities.

LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

The quality of intercourse between the possessor of authority and whoever is subject to it is not what it is in intimate and custom-bound communi - ties; it allows both of new kinds of freedom and new kinds of oppression.

LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

The reasons why we cannot be content with our fathers 'conservatism in morals, and our fathers' custom-bound conscience, may be summarized as follows:

Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

While custom-bound and feudal régimes may emphasize the tendency to suppress development of individuality, and insist on regimentation in thought and action -- an ideal proclaimed with increasing generality in Germany from Hegel down [2] there may be on the part of both individuals and groups the tendency to promote individuality as itself a social good.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

For change implies deviation from the ways of life sanctioned by the group, and deviation is itself, in a custom-bound morality, regarded with suspicion.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

Except in the rigidly custom-bound life of primitive societies, a man is, even in practical life, exposed to a diversity of codes, standards, and expectations of behavior.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

Such systems are common in stable and custom-bound countries, and persisted throughout the European Middle

Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903

Reserved old diplomats were overwhelmed by their own enthusiasm; custom-bound soldiers forgot the hereditary caution and fell into the ways of the new leaders without a murmur.

Beverly of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897