0 A time-honored tradition, practice, or method is respected because it has been done or used in the same way for many years:
humorous The developers dealt with the problem in the time-honored fashion/way, burying the industrial waste in landfill sites.
1 considered important because of having existed for many years:
Family Thanksgiving dinners are a time-honored tradition.
This type of rhetoric can lead toward an emptiness of moral meaning; the constant reinvention of principle weakens the firm quality of time-honored ideals.
In this the radio was simply a new instrument for a time-honored purpose.
Although the government had a time-honored policy against squatting, it was clearly unenforceable.
The way in which public economics has repeatedly dragged the time-honored rule of utilitarianism into welfare discussions is a case in point.
One of the most relevant political implications of their ethic was a time-honored right of self-medication.
This new research has been particularly important in that it has problematized time-honored beliefs about the social role of the interpreter.
Detailed analysis of transcripts is a time-honored practice among linguistic ethnographers.
On the contrary, the former can facilitate the emergence of a new domain by embedding it with the reproduction of time-honored patterns of social exchanges.
