Respected or valued through having existed for a long time.
time-hallowed traditions
time-hallowed texts
Example sentencesExamples
There is an easy mechanism, also time-hallowed, for winnowing out what may be right from what is clearly wrong: it's called reading.
Both of the Evening Canticles are in his own idiomatic style, and hark back, in different ways, to ancient, time-hallowed chant.
We live in a world where time-hallowed assumptions are changing.
The impulse to turn to time-hallowed texts, like the classics or the Bible, is itself time-hallowed.
It has its ancient mysteries and legends, its time-hallowed conspiracies and secrets both great and petty.
She spoke in the time-hallowed manner of engineers everywhere as they recited their professional opinions.
His approach to myths opposes the archaic view that there is a time-hallowed truth waiting to be unveiled, instead treating the stories as volatile and dynamic.
The first assumption to be examined in this context is that single-party government is a time-hallowed British tradition.
Synonyms
well established, long-established, established, fixed