as in conservatism
attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
the judge is noted for his gentlemanly politeness and his judicial conservativeness
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Noun
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Olivia’s family’s wealth gave him not one but two fortunes to squander, and her family’s religious conservatism made the possibility of bankruptcy a moral as well as fiscal event.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
9 May 2025 -
His challenge in the last days of the race: to convince Canadians that conservatism has the solution to deal with Donald Trump.—
Sara Miller Llana,
Christian Science Monitor,
25 Apr. 2025
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After decades of decline, gender traditionalism is on the rise among Republican voters in the United States, according to recent data cited by The New York TImes.—
Nicole Mowbray,
CNN Money,
30 Apr. 2025
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The fact that traditionalism varies across and within societies is hardly surprising: some version of that finding is cooked into the survey method with its agglomeration of micro-level data.—
Andrew J. Nathan,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2012
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“Conservativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conservativeness. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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