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Is there a word which means one who prefers older ways?

I don't mean a Luddite or a technophobe, or a misoneist, or a neophobe. Not any fear of the new, but rather one who, given no perceived benefit of doing something the new way, prefers an old way.

Examples:

Even where the new lanes have been added, traffic permitting, John prefers to make lane changes to conform with where the older lanes used to take him; he's rather ________ in that behavior.

Mary is quite the ________, preferring to use a manual pencil sharpener to an electric one.

Best Answer

Mill-horse

And what a couple of old patriarchs shall we become, going in the mill-horse round; getting sons and daughters; providing nurses for them first, governors and governesses next; teaching them lessons their fathers never practised, nor which their mother, as her parents will say, was much the better for!
Clarissa Harlowe

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Roland is a great personage, an honest nobody, a mill-horse at the wheel of office. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

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But I had achieved a frigate and a Princess, and that was not so bad for a beginning, and more than enough to show off with before those dull unadventurous folk who continued on their mill-horse round at home.
Dream Days

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