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ultraconservative

adjective

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Strongly committed to preserving established practices or resisting change.

The fictional committee's ultraconservative approach left it reluctant to alter even minor procedures.
Dictionary practice example.
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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