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time-honored
[ tahym-on-erd ]
adjective
- revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance:
a time-honored custom.
Word History and Origins
Origin of time-honored1
Example Sentences
This time-honored phenomenon has a name: The October surprise.
Thus, the time-honored approach of separating the sick from the well is unlikely to prevent spread.
A time-honored and noble legacy is kept alive by a yearning for discovery and exploration.
Establishing a blue-ribbon commission in the midst of scandal is a time-honored Washington tradition.
Writing about themselves having sex is a time-honored way for young women to get it.
In accordance with the time-honored New England custom, on Sunday morning we had our “baked beans.”
They had met that evening, said the speaker, in accordance with a time-honored custom.
But blood will tell, and here he was in the time-honored custom of the family!
Such an innovation on the time-honored ways of South Plains had never been heard of before.
Time honored tradition had said: "Life can exist only where there is oxygen, water and warmth."
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