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Meanings of shibboleth (shibboleths) in English
Usage of shibboleths in English
1
The government has gone silent about its shibboleths of marketisation and deregulation.
2
But his mind harboured none of the common Protestant rules and shibboleths.
3
They are continually poisoning the ears of men by repeating these shibboleths.
4
In this era of smashed icons and discarded shibboleths, the danger is clear.
5
Surely in such a day as this it is no time to discuss shibboleths.
6
Such shibboleths as marriage until death and a job for life were quickly weakened.
7
The shibboleths of the past are ever more real than the actualities of the present.
8
He was concerned with the living spirit, not with ritual, or formularies, or doctrinal shibboleths.
9
The old party shibboleths will be swept away.
10
The democracy is a ready victim to shibboleths and catchwords, as all demagogues know too well.
11
We have promulgated other fool shibboleths which we are too proud or too stupid to repudiate.
12
He did not, it is true, aim at any fanciful ideal, or adopt any fantastic shibboleths.
13
So to find time for our kind of science, we had to dump a few shibboleths.
14
My sweet babe, my dear ex-Junior, let us initiate you into the shibboleths of the Fifth!
15
The empty shibboleths-theloud and blatant voice-thebumptious temper-that make the commoner form of Tory-allare there.
16
They were still further offended because He used none of the shibboleths with which they were familiar.
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