traditionless
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a word derived from
tradition.
traditionnounthe handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice.
Example Sentences
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One worrying fact about U. S. foxhunting is its brief, comparatively traditionless history.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Australia Australia, young and traditionless though she is, has produced her quota of artists, and an Australian exhibition is now in progress at Burlington House, London.
From Time Magazine Archive
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San Francisco was full of these forced blooms consumed and withered by the sudden heat of a free and traditionless life.
From The Blood Red Dawn by Charles Caldwell Dobie
It has never for instance had the shamelessness of such a traditionless and undisciplined class as the early factory organisers.
From God the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
You have a terrific personality and if you were at your maturity in this traditionless era you'd be a great national figure, not a mere social power.
From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton