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A person who adheres to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practices.
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A traditional climbing climber.
Examples of traditionalist in a Sentence
Is he or she more of a traditionalist or does your partner prefer funny or quirky cards?
Pope Leo had indeed, in a letter to the Franciscan ministergeneral (November 1898), and in an encyclical to the French clergy (September 1899), vigorously emphasized the traditionalist principles of his encyclical Providentissimus of 1893; he had even, much to his prompt regret, signed the unfortunate decree of the Roman Inquisition, January 1897, prohibiting all doubt as to the authenticity of the "Three Heavenly Witnesses" passage, John v.
But in Eckhart the attitude of the churchman and traditionalist is entirely abandoned.
As a theologian, in fact, Origen is not merely an orthodox traditionalist and believing exegete, but a speculative philosopher of Neo-Platonic tendencies.
He was a scholar of the traditionalist Bukhari, and in his search for traditions travelled through Khorasan, Irak and Hejaz.
His course, bold even to the point of rashness in the eyes of the traditionalist exegetists, was at length suspended.
The problem of interpretation of the Divine Will, especially in the case of the " papist " or traditionalist, lay beyond their vision at the time.
A century later Maimonides was to give a new turn to Jewish thought, by the assimilation of Aristotelianism with Mosaism, but Rashi was a traditionalist pure and simple.
There were the free market libertarians, the traditionalist conservatives, the middle way social democrats, the social authoritarians.
A wine traditionalist will tell you that colored glasses can make it very difficult to evaluate the color and clarity of the wine - both important factors in wine evaluation.
As an orthodox traditionalist Origen holds that Christianity is a practical and religious saving principle, that it has unfolded itself in an historical series of revealing facts, that the church has accurately embodied the substance of her faith in the regula fidei, and that simple faith is sufficient for the renewal and salvation of man.
It is plain that his sympathies were with the traditionalist school or opposed to that which sought to build up the system of canon law on a speculative basis (see Mahommedan Law).
A wine traditionalist will probably tell you that unique wine glasses detract from the wine drinking experience.
If you are more of a traditionalist when it comes to your choices in long underwear, Duofold also carries a line of thermal undergarments simply named Duofold Thermals.