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tikanga Maori en · NOUN

Etymology

From Māori tikanga Māori.

Meanings

  1. (New-Zealand, uncountable) Maori customs and values, considered as a collective body of belief and behaviour.
    • The major points of Christian belief that would contrast with tikanga Māori were the notions that natural man was a fallen creature needing to be redeemed by Christ's suffering and death; and that every human life […] was of equal value in the eyes of Te Atua and those who ackowledged Him. 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 128: