[f. TRADITIONAL + -IST.] An adherent of traditionalism; one who upholds the authority of tradition: = TRADITIONIST 1. Also attrib.
1875. E. White, Life in Christ, II. xvi. (1878), 188. If the Pharisaic doctrine of the oral law were the truth…, there was no reason why the Incarnate Wisdom of God should not confirm the doctrine of the traditionalists.
1881. Nation (N. Y.), XXXII. 425. The high-handed procedure of the traditionalist leaders.
1881. W. R. Smith, Old Test. in Jew. Ch., xi. 326. The superciliousness with which traditionalists declare the labours of the critics to be visionary.
1906. Edin. Rev., July, 208. To the traditionalist the reformer … is a profane person.
Hence Traditionalistic a., of or belonging to traditionalists or traditionalism.
1874. trans. Ueberweg’s Hist. Philos., II. 339. De Bonald (1754–1840) was the chief of the so-called ‘traditionalistic’ school, the leading dogma of which was the divine creation of language.
