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Meanings of time-honoured in English

Honored because of age or long usage.

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Usage of time-honoured in English
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In time-honoured fashion, talk of promise has been undermined by stark reality.
The Guardian
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It's a time-honoured journey, and one that often holds untold wrestling glories.
The Guardian
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The time-honoured examples were easily shown to be capable of different explanations.
Darwin and Modern Science
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The abbey breaks its own time-honoured traditions, and hands over the boy.
The White Princess
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My original contention was based on the time-honoured saying, 'murder will out.'
The Hollow of Her Hand
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Football club best and fairests often follow a certain time-honoured formula.
News.com.au
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Works on paper are a time-honoured and affordable category of collectables.
The South African
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It came in time-honoured forms-thoseof horses and of a woman.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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I'd been away, in the time-honoured criminal sense of the word.
Woken furies
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Indeed it is an old and time-honoured trick of the fox.
Lady into Fox
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This hostility flowed from an ancient and time-honoured belief in Scotland.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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It is a time-honoured tradition for artists to swap work with one another.
News.com.au
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The time-honoured Alexandra Blossom Festival is in danger of withering on the vine.
Radio NZ
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It is an ancient and time-honoured trick of your adorable sex.
Quill's Window
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Very soon, however, the children are ready for the time-honoured fairy-tale or folk-tale.
The Child Under Eight
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It is a time-honoured tradition among the old to worry about the young.
The Guardian