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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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Humanitas
On Tradition.
09/22/2000: 10,539 words, approx. 35 pages
Tradition can be a highly evaluative concept. Conservatives often evoke the idea of tradition to express reverence for continuity and the past. Tradition can act as an anti-theoretical concept deployed to question the role of doctrine and reason within social life. [1] Traditions...
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The Washington Post
Tradition! Tradition! Or Not
01/30/1994: 991 words, approx. 3 pages
Can weddings be run without the factor of sex playing a significant part? Oh, dear. That does not at all sound like what Miss Manners intended. Giggling over the connection between the wedding ceremony and whatever subsequent events it might lead to is...
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AP News
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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Essay Grade: 86%
Tradition and Laws Vs Beliefs
685 words, approx. 2 pages
Portrayal of traditions throughout time, the laws that guide them and beliefs.


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