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Strongly committed to preserving established practices or resisting change.

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ultraconservative

The fictional committee's ultraconservative approach left it reluctant to alter even minor procedures.
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An ultraconservative delegate urged restoring hereditary offices and ancestral social ranks that the town had abandoned, giving inherited custom priority over individual choice.
From A Charter for the Imagined Town.
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