traditive

[ trad-i-tiv ]

adjective

1. traditional.

Word History and Origins

Origin of traditive¹

First recorded in 1605–15; tradit(ion) + -ive

Example Sentences

Traditive interpretations of Scripture are pretended, but there are few or none to be found.

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Traditive interpretations of Scripture are pretended, but there are few or none to be found.

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This also rests upon the practice apostolical and traditive interpretation of holy Church, and yet cannot be denied that so it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Christendom suspected.

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Such imitation is on the surface, and does not touch the core of that mysterious combination of traditive with original elements in diction, which Milton and Virgil, alone of poets known to us, have effected.

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