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shibboleths

n. (plural of shibboleth English)

Usage examples of "shibboleths".

It will mean discarding many shibboleths, the naive molecular reductionism of the biochemists, the and behaviourism of the psychologists, but we can see the goal clearly.

Their motions seemed a little meaningless to one so far removed from all the fetishes and shibboleths of Westminster.

When he had become a man at half-past fifteen, he had assumed the senseless shibboleths of his flaminate without a murmur or a look, and Aurelia had heaved a sigh of relief.

Mankind to put old cultural shibboleths aside and step into the bright socialist dawn.