traditionary
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who places emphasis on traditions.
Example Sentences
- "[…] they are ready to think it an hereticall way for any man to step out of the beaten trod of their teachers traditionary religion."
- "[…] as few or no records were extant in those days, and traditionary history stuff’d with fables, it was very easy after the lapse of a few generations, to trump up some superstitious tale conveniently timed, Mahomet like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar."
- "The reveries of the Talmud, which are a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations, are unrivalled in the regions of absurdity."
- "First you hear the bells […], or perhaps the voice of the muleteer, admonishing some tardy or wandering animal, or chanting, at the full stretch of his lungs, some traditionary ballad."
- "And, with their old traditionary song, […]"
- "But the literary critic must also resist the notion that the biblical text is a more or less unwitting accretion of traditionary materials […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Latin trāns Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin trādō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin trāditiōbor. Old French tradicionbor. Middle English tradicioun English tradition Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English traditionary From tradition + -ary.