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Hidebound Adj Unwilling Unable Change Tradition Convention Babylonian

Word hidebound
Definition adj. Unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention.
Sentence So the Old Babylonian period was an era of great literary creativity in Akkadian, but the school curriculum, at least in the centres we know best, was evidently too hidebound to reflect this development.
Source The Epic of Gilgamesh, Introduction, p. xxi

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