Synonyms for handed-down
handed-down

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1. handed-down, tralatitiousadjective

   having been passed along from generation to generation

   "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor"

   Synonyms:
   tralatitious

   Antonyms:
   untraditional, nontraditional

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1. Daniel McGuinness:

   We respect the Court's decisions in this case, but do not agree with the sentence handed down today.

2. Olive Schreiner:

   Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

3. Diane Black:

   It is a sad day in America when those who harvest the body parts of aborted babies escape consequences for their actions, while the courageous truth-tellers who expose their misdeeds are handed down a politically motivated indictment instead.

4. Julia Warrack:

   She loves hosting some holidays, loves cooking her recipes that have been handed down from the generations.

5. Andrzej Duda:

   We can say confidently that we are sending MiGs to Ukraine, we have a dozen or so MiGs that we got in the 90s handed down from the German Democratic Republic and they are functional and play a part in the defense of our airspace. They are at the end of their operational life but are still functional.