traditionalistn.adj.
/trəˈdɪʃn̩əlɪst/, /trəˈdɪʃn̩l̩ɪst/, /trəˈdɪʃənl̩ɪst/, /trəˈdɪʃ(ə)nəlɪst/, U.S. /trəˈdɪʃ(ə)nələst/ rare before 19th cent.
A. n.
1. A person who maintains or upholds the authority of tradition; a person who adheres to traditional ways, practices, or beliefs in any field; a supporter or adherent of traditionalism.In early use often with reference to religion.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > tradition > [noun] > adherent
traditioner1555
traditionary1564
traditionist1584
traditionalist1660
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another > adherence to > one who
traditioner1555
traditionary1564
traditionist1584
traditional1656
traditionalist1660
mouldy fig1950
trad1956
trad1960
1660 J. Harding in tr. B. Valentine Triumphant Chariot Antimony To Rdr. sig. Av An unseemly thing for the authorized Traditionalists to pretend a Mastership in this Faculty which concernes the Life of man.
1753 J. S. G. Detector Detected 4 The imperfect Relation of some incurious Orator, Mariner, or miraculous Traditionalist.
1781 London Courant & Westm. Chron. 2 June Corruption..has existed longer..than the sagest and most experienced Chinese traditionalists can venture to hand down to posterity.
1827 M. Smith Let. 23 Feb. (1844) lx. 143 That [remark] of traditionalists only being able to recommend their own bewildered path is very true.
1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church xi. 326 The superciliousness with which traditionalists declare the labours of the critics to be visionary.
1906 Edinb. Rev. July 208 To the traditionalist the reformer..is a profane person.
1967 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 57 124 Only a traditionalist resolved to save the sexpartite authorship would choose this view.
2008 Guardian 15 Jan. (Educ. section) 12/3 If the tradition of the university is about emancipating students, then call me a traditionalist.
2. Originally British. A person who plays or appreciates traditional jazz. Cf. trad n.1 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > jazz musician > types of
faker1903
swing man1903
honky-tonker1910
Chicagoan1924
stomper1925
Dixielander1927
modernist1932
swinger1934
ride man1935
all-star1937
swingster1937
hamfat1938
mouldy fig1945
traditionalist1949
trad1951
West Coaster1954
mainstreamer1961
soulster1961
New Thinger1964
society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of jazz > of specific types of jazz
modernist1932
icky1937
ick1942
mouldy fig1945
bebopper1946
skiffler1948
traditionalist1949
bopper1951
West Coaster1954
soulster1961
folkie1966
1949 Daily Mirror 17 Aug. 8/3 The Feldman Club used to follow a very catholic policy, catering both for traditionalists and progressives.
1962 Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 3 The strange division between the extrovert ‘traditionalists’..and the very different avant garde ‘modernists’ (whose idol is the revolutionary Charlie Parker).
1983 New Oxf. Compan. Music I. 990/1 Parker..laid his influence on virtually everything and everyone except the dedicated ‘traditionalists’.
2012 A. Shipton in L. Cerchiari et al. Eurojazzland xii. 266 Traditionalists advocating the values of Armstrong, Morton, and Oliver.
B. adj.
1. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or favouring traditionalists or traditionalism.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [adjective] > traditional > adhering to
traditional1597
traditionary1613
tradition-bound1660
tradition-loving1660
tradition-ridden1660
traditionalist1854
1854 Metropolitan Apr. 177 The Vicomte de Bonald,..founder of the Traditionalist school in France.
1881 Nation (N.Y.) 32 425 The high-handed procedure of the traditionalist leaders.
1944 N. L. Pritchard Presentation of Old Test. 2 This view does as much violence to the time spirit of the Old Testament as its opposite, the Traditionalist standpoint.
1966 Guardian 28 July 6/5 The traditionalist right flank of Orthodox Judaism.
2002 R. Scodel Listening to Homer (2005) 33 Homeric poetry is strongly traditionalist.
2. That plays or appreciates traditional jazz; of or relating to traditional jazz.
ΚΠ
1948 Billings (Montana) Herald 30 Dec. 5/3 The two critic-rivals (Panassie heads the traditionalist clique, Delauney the modernists) can be accused of bias.
1951 Jazz Jrnl. Sept. 15/1 First, the bands... The stars of the Traditionalist show were ‘The Saints’.
1990 N.Y. Times 6 July c26/5 A banjo player shown performing at the traditionalist mecca, Preservation Hall.
2003 D. Bradbury Armstrong 67 Detractors from the traditionalist school accused him of ‘dropping bombs’ because he used accents in unexpected places to create cross-rhythms.
Derivatives
traˌditionaˈlistic adj. = sense B. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > tradition > [adjective]
traditionalistic1859
1859 T. V. Moore Power & Claims Calvinistic Lit. 3 This is asserted to be..not by traditionalistic or rationalistic deliverances about the truth, but by the inspired word of God.
1940 L. Wirth & E. A. Shils tr. K. Mannheim Ideol. & Utopia iii. 108 On the one hand, precapitalistic, traditionalistic irrationalism.
2001 Baptist Times 15 Mar. 6/3 Praying in Shakespearian English..does not make a person traditionalistic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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