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- noun The state or condition of being
traditional .
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- noun strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
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Examples
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True family values and traditionality is back in the White House. —
‘Open For Questions’ Has Some Answers - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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While the traditionality of tropes and themes can and often does result in a traditionality of political message, however, conservatism is, I think, too inextricably associated with right-wing politics.
The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007
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While the traditionality of tropes and themes can and often does result in a traditionality of political message, however, conservatism is, I think, too inextricably associated with right-wing politics.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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Moving on, the third sentence fuses the comprehensible and the strange, the old and the new, balancing the novelty of "chips in the head" against the traditionality of "broth"; but it also, in following on from the first two, develops the narrative.
Strange Fiction 6 Hal Duncan 2006
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Moving on, the third sentence fuses the comprehensible and the strange, the old and the new, balancing the novelty of "chips in the head" against the traditionality of "broth"; but it also, in following on from the first two, develops the narrative.
Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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The conditions placed on karate were therefore doubly contradictory: karate needed a modernization that declared its traditionality, and it needed to found this ancientness on a history that effaced much of its past.
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The conditions placed on karate were therefore doubly contradictory: karate needed a modernization that declared its traditionality, and it needed to found this ancientness on a history that effaced much of its past.
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The conditions placed on karate were therefore doubly contradictory: karate needed a modernization that declared its traditionality, and it needed to found this ancientness on a history that effaced much of its past.
井の中の蛙 » Karate and Modernity: A Call for Comments » Print 2005
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And indeed, it was only in the transition to modernity that concern for traditionality took on its current meanings.
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The conditions placed on karate were therefore doubly contradictory: karate needed a modernization that declared its traditionality, and it needed to found this ancientness on a history that effaced much of its past.
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