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handed-down
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handed-down, tralatitiousadjective
having been passed along from generation to generation
"among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor"
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tralatitiousAntonyms:
untraditional, nontraditional
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We respect the Court's decisions in this case, but do not agree with the sentence handed down today.
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.
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.
She loves hosting some holidays, loves cooking her recipes that have been handed down from the generations.
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.
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