break with tradition

English

Noun

break with tradition (plural breaks with tradition)

  1. A deviation from established practices or traditions.
    • 1996, Seymour R. Kesten, Utopian Episodes:
      The first [phase] calls for leaders impatient with the past, and temperamentally disposed to an irreverent break with tradition. They must be agitators who can fan the flames of discontent and gather forces with the strength to tear down the old.
    • 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      The break with tradition that Francis, who has died aged 88 after suffering from double pneumonia, represented even managed to trump the shock value of the resignation of Benedict, who was the first pope for 600 years to take that option rather than die in office. Immediately, Bergoglio signalled unambiguously that he intended to be a different kind of pope, one for the 21st century.

Verb

break with tradition (third-person singular simple present breaks with tradition, present participle breaking with tradition, simple past broke with tradition, past participle broken with tradition)

  1. To deviate from established practices or traditions.
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