traditional belief

collocation in English

meaningsoftraditionalandbelief

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traditional
adjective
uk
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/us
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/
following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time ...
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belief
noun[C or S or U]
uk
/bɪˈliːf/us
/bɪˈliːf/
the feeling of being certain that something exists or ...
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(Definition oftraditionalandbelieffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Here is an example that illustrates deference and accommodation exercised out of respect for elders andtraditionalbelief.
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Clack offers the example of thetraditionalbeliefthat people die or are born as the tide ebbs or flows.
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This picture is complicated by the increasing tendency to question thetraditionalbeliefthat watershed protection values provided by primary forest are unambiguously positive.
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Is that in accordance with ourtraditionalbeliefin the liberty of the subject?
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To do otherwise would be to depart from yourtraditionalbeliefin free institutions.
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In addition, the groups were compared on somatoform dissociation andtraditionalbelief, two factors involving experiences that did not necessarily occur before the epidemic but that may nevertheless be associated.
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Thetraditionalbeliefthat home ownership is a necessary milestone to acquiring wealth still holds.
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Folklore in his prospective is a body oftraditionalbelief, custom, and expression.
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People withtraditionalbeliefstill try to escape with number 8 that comes together with 12.
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Traditionalbeliefholds that there are both good elves and bad elves, light elves and dark.
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There istraditionalbeliefthat some days are lucky ("kichijitsu") or unlucky.
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Colonists adhered to thetraditionalbeliefthat distilled spirits were "aqua vitae", or water of life.
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They challengedtraditionalbeliefsystems and advocated environmental wholenessliving systemsweb of life thinking.
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There must be some approach that starts to give people confidence that there is no truth in the long-standingtraditionalbeliefthat no decommissioning will ever happen.
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Traditionalbeliefestablished that this vein ran directly from the heart to the fourth finger of the left hand.
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Thistraditionalbeliefis factually inaccurate as all the fingers in the hand have a similar vein structure.
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Studies have shown that in contrast totraditionalbelief, a large proportion of peoples attitudes are weak and vague.
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Its distribution is quite patchy and in some areas it is persecuted due to atraditionalbeliefthat it is an animal of ill omen.
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Multi-family homes were viewed with suspicion by religious authorities, as were those aspects of the "rumah adat" linked totraditionalbelief.
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It's atraditionalbeliefthat parents should send their children to all kinds of cram schools in order to compete against other talented children.
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Such theologies often involved a more drastic pruning and reinterpretation oftraditionalbeliefin order to cohere with the axiom or axioms.
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These traditional beliefs were not transportable to other environments and as tribes were relocated and their land was lost, so too were many aspects oftraditionalbelief.
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They refrained from doing this because it was theirtraditionalbeliefthat by washing, they would pollute the water and anger the dragons that controlled the water cycle.
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