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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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High warp and low warp are the terms so often used as to seem a shibboleth.
The idea that liberalism is something confined to a few deadheads on the coasts is a shibboleth.
Shakespeare imposed no exclusive criteria upon his vocabulary and erected no shibboleth of purity of diction, such as was to hamstring Continental theatre for centuries.
But a new study, arguing that some Americans get better care than do Britons at a comparable cost, calls that shibboleth into question.
Unless the corporate social responsibility issues are understood properly, this will become another sort of shibboleth for the global economy.
His godly hymns betray no credal shibboleth or doctrinal bias, but are songs for the whole earthly church of God.

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