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Tradition Summary
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TRADITION. The word tradition comes from the Latin noun traditio (handing over), which derives from the verb tradere (hand over, deliver). Traditio corresponds closely to the Greek paradosis, which also comes from a verb (paradidomi) meaning...
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Tradition Information
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The word tradition comes from the Latin word traditio which means "to hand down" or "to hand over." It is used in a number of ways in the English...


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Tradition Quotes
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Tradition refers to the adherence to practices handed down from generations past. Unsourced All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. Aristotle Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the...


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Pope praises traditional family
5/24/2007: 330 words, approx. 1 pages
Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday praised a recent demonstration in Rome against proposed legislation granting legal rights to unmarried couples, including gay ones, saying it showed that traditional family was at the core of Italian society.Benedict called the May 12 Family Day rally, organized by...
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Huckabee defends traditional marriages
2/9/2007: 306 words, approx. 1 pages
Republican Mike Huckabee said Friday that marriage shouldn't be treated as an experiment in response to questions about whether Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter should have the right to wed.The former Arkansas governor, who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination, said heterosexual marriages face...
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Tradition guides presidents' funerals
12/27/2006: 981 words, approx. 3 pages
The modern presidency operates as if by script, with carefully chosen crowds, painstakingly shaped words and backdrops picked for just the right effect.As in life, so, too, in death.The funeral of an ex-president follows rituals soaked in tradition and specified right down to the exact...
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Poll: Christmas tradition trumps trendy
12/22/2006: 555 words, approx. 2 pages
Tradition often trumps the trendy during the Christmas season. People send traditional Christmas cards through the mail far more than they send greeting cards by e-mail. Most people think it's OK to have Christmas decorations at public buildings, even though it occasionally draws protests and...
 


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Tradition and Laws Vs Beliefs
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Portrayal of traditions throughout time, the laws that guide them and beliefs.


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