time-honored

Related to time-honored: traditionality

time-hon·ored

(tīm′ŏn′ərd)

adj.

Respected or adhered to because of age or age-old observance.

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time′-hon`ored

adj.

revered or respected because of long observance or continuance: a time-honored custom.

Also, esp. Brit.,time′-hon`oured.

[1585–95]

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Adj.	1.	time-honored - acceptable for a long time; "time-honored customs" time-honoured reputable - having a good reputation; "a reputable business"; "a reputable scientist"; "a reputable wine"
	2.	time-honored - honored because of age or long usage; "time-honored institutions" time-honoured honourable, honorable - worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"

time-honored

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Adhering to beliefs or practices approved by authority or tradition:

canonical, orthodox, received, sanctioned.

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(two or three stories,) wide, neat, and free from any quaintness of architectural ornamentation; locust trees bordering the sidewalks (they call them acacias;) a stirring, business-look about the streets and the stores; fast walkers; a familiar new look about the houses and every thing; yea, and a driving and smothering cloud of dust that was so like a message from our own dear native land that we could hardly refrain from shedding a few grateful tears and execrations in the old time-honored American way.

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"I am told my lord, you have rich possessions in your own country and that you live in a splendid and time-honored palace."

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I felt the structure of our time-honored militaristic arguments crumbling about me.

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She was probably the very last person in town who still kept the time-honored spinning-wheel in constant revolution.

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No Puseyite,[1] or conservative of any school, was ever more inflexibly attached to time-honored inconveniences than Dinah.

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The result of this was that Newman found it impossible to convince him of certain time-honored verities.

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I say, the most ungentlemanly trick a man can be guilty of is to come among the members of his profession with innovations which are a libel on their time-honored procedure.

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Here you can enjoy one-act classical performances, such as Petipa's late choreographic masterpiece, Harlequinade, and Fokine's Les Sylphides and Le Spectre de la Rose, as well as time-honored excerpts from old ballets such as Flower Festival in Genzano, La Vivandiere, Le Papillon, La Esmeralda, and The Fairy Doll.

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I do not wish to lose or remove this time-honored vow-as well as the rings, which symbolize unending relationship-in our wedding ceremonies: