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What is a shibboleth?

What is a shibboleth? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A word, especially seen as a test, to distinguish someone as belonging to a particular nation, class, profession etc.
  2. A common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth.
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Measured by that other shibboleth of conservationists, energy use, organic farming was also better.
In these globalising times, nobody likes to hear the old shibboleth from the past.
The idea that liberalism is something confined to a few deadheads on the coasts is a shibboleth.
So that what happened on September 11th was that the shibboleth that international natural forces of economics existed was shown to be a joke.
His godly hymns betray no credal shibboleth or doctrinal bias, but are songs for the whole earthly church of God.
High warp and low warp are the terms so often used as to seem a shibboleth.

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