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Definition of time-hallowed in English: time-hallowedadjective Respected or valued through having existed for a long time. Example sentencesExamples - There is an easy mechanism, also time-hallowed, for winnowing out what may be right from what is clearly wrong: it's called reading.
- Both of the Evening Canticles are in his own idiomatic style, and hark back, in different ways, to ancient, time-hallowed chant.
- We live in a world where time-hallowed assumptions are changing.
- The impulse to turn to time-hallowed texts, like the classics or the Bible, is itself time-hallowed.
- It has its ancient mysteries and legends, its time-hallowed conspiracies and secrets both great and petty.
- She spoke in the time-hallowed manner of engineers everywhere as they recited their professional opinions.
- His approach to myths opposes the archaic view that there is a time-hallowed truth waiting to be unveiled, instead treating the stories as volatile and dynamic.
- The first assumption to be examined in this context is that single-party government is a time-hallowed British tradition.
Synonyms well established, long-established, established, fixed
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