Usage of "shibboleth"

Portuguese

mote

Catalan

eslògan

Spanish

shibboleth

A favorite saying of a sect or political group.

mote

Usage of shibboleth in English

The political turn came with the shibboleth that the personal is political. 
 The new yorker 

Trade, property, business, respectability, good form; these were the shibboleth they worshipped. 
 The Vision Splendid 

Then you would ruthlessly put your friends to death for a shibboleth? 
 The Magic Skin 

Success to the Mark Twain Club!-andthe novel shibboleth of the Whistle. 
 Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) 

A G7 shibboleth is support for free trade, and a rules-based world order. 
 The Guardian 

My own shibboleth came in the early 1970s in my first university seminar. 
 The Guardian 

She knew the limits of her shibboleth of culture, and never passed them. 
 Through stained glass / A Novel 

This law, expressed by Goethe, is the controlling shibboleth in all Haeckel's philosophy. 
 Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 / Little J... 

Ever hear that perfectly damnable shibboleth shouted by a Fourth of July orator? 
 The Pride of Palomar 

For two centuries the mosques and the mint proclaimed the shibboleth of the Shiahs. 
 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlem... 

Gossip is the shibboleth of the mediocre, and, thank heaven, I am not mediocre. 
 Parrot & Co. 

Thank God I have done with these people and their disgusting shibboleth of respectability. 
 A Millionaire of Yesterday 

And the Spaniard, as he uttered this emphatic shibboleth, gnashed his teeth with vexation. 
 The Tiger Hunter 

And this led to that shibboleth of the Revolution, "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality." 
 Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 / Little J... 

Let self-mastery be your shibboleth and 'no nerves' your prayer. 
 The Woman Beautiful; or, The Art of Beauty Culture 

That phrase, "the white man's charter of freedom," had become Lincoln's shibboleth. 
 Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri... 