traditionist

[ truh-dish-uh-nist ]

noun

1. a traditionalist.
2. a person who records, transmits, or is versed in traditions.

Word History and Origins

Origin of traditionist¹

First recorded in 1660–70; tradition + -ist

Example Sentences

The most renowned traditionist of the Umayyad age is Muḥammad b.

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Man is not to waste his energies in grasping the immense and misty proportions of the beliefs of this or that traditionist or minute systems to which souls are often bent in unwilling conformity.

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The earliest account of its origin we have from Ruffinus, an historical compiler and traditionist of the fourth century, but not in the form in which it is known at present, it having been added to since that time.

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Cimabue was still a Traditionist.

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His own authority as a traditionist was cited by Amr ibn Dinár, Al-Aamash, Al-Auzái, and a great number of others who had heard him teach.

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