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countable and uncountable, plural traditions
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. quotations examples
Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged.
1920, T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, in The Sacred Wood
Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!
After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death.
1850, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree
A commonly held system. examples
An established or distinctive style or method: examples
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. quotations examples
A deed takes effect only from this tradition or delivery; for, if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it.
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press
third-person singular simple present traditions, present participle traditioning, simple past and past participle traditioned
(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. quotations
The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.The spelling has been modernized.
1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837