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Meanings of
shibboleth
(shibboleths)
in inglés
portugués
mote
catalán
eslògan
español
shibboleth
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A favorite saying of a sect or political group.
motto
slogan
catchword
español
shibboleth
Usage of
shibboleths
in inglés
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
-
the
loud
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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shibboleths
shibboleth
Noun
Plural
Frequent collocations
abandon those shibboleths
become shibboleths
discard shibboleths
doctrinal shibboleths
empty shibboleths
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Translations for
shibboleths
portugués
mote
lemas
cambial
lema
catalán
eslògan
lema
español
shibboleth
Shibboleths
through the time