traˈditionalist
[f. traditional + -ist.]
a. 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 O. 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. |
b. One who plays, appreciates, or supports traditional jazz (see traditional a. 1 c). Also attrib. or as adj.
| 1951 Jazz. Jrnl. Sept. 15/1 First, the bands... The stars of the Traditionalist show were ‘The Saints’. Ibid. 15/2 Why did he have to spoil what was otherwise an excellent job of compering by making his usual crack at the traditionalists? 1962 [see modernist 6]. 1983 New Oxf. Compan. Music I. 990/1 Parker..laid his influence on virtually everything and everyone except the dedicated ‘traditionalists’. |
Hence traˌditionaˈlistic a., of or belonging to traditionalists or traditionalism.
| 1874 tr. 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. |