traditionalist

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traditionalist

noun traditionalists

  1. A person who adheres to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practices. Pullman traditionalists will no doubt maintain that the full-service-at-every-seat principle is popular with their clientele; […].
  2. A traditional climbing climber.

Opposite: annihilationist, conditionalist, destructionist, reformer, reformist

adjective more traditionalist · most traditionalist

  1. Adhering to tradition, especially in religious practices. The day before, Cardinal Burke and other traditionalist prelates made public an exchange of letters with Francis in which they aired grave doubts about the legitimacy of a major assembly of the world’s bishops and laypeople that will, on Wednesday, begin discussing some of the most sensitive topics

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noun one who adheres to tradition

Españoltradicionalista
日本語伝統主義者 dentō shugisha
中文傳統主義者 /传统主义者 chuántǒng zhǔyìzhě
Portuguêstradicionalista
Françaistraditionaliste
DeutschTraditionalist, Traditionalistin
Italianotradizionalista
Русскийтрадиционали́ст tradicionalíst, традиционали́стка tradicionalístka

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@misc{traditionalist_2026,
  title = {traditionalist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/traditionalist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}