Noun:

किसी समूह का चिह्न, किसी पंथ का मुख्य व्यवहार,

shibboleth's Usage Examples:

A willingness to call the Virgin Mary Theotokos is an important shibboleth for Christological orthodoxy.

shibboleth for Christological orthodoxy.

shibboleth used as a test.

shibboleth of orthodoxy.

Shibboleth >>

Whether or no the so-called "fourth formula" (Hahn, § 156) is to be ascribed to a continuation of this synod or to a subsequent but distinct assembly of the same year, its aim is like that of the first three; while repudiating certain Arian formulas it avoids the Athanasian shibboleth "homoousios."

That the confusion of the sibilants was not confined to the Greeks only, but that pronunciation varied within a small area even among the Semitic stock, is shown by the difficulty which the Ephraimites found in pronouncing " shibboleth " (Judges xii.

It became - to quote Professor Kattenbusch - the "secular" designation of the adherents of the Reformation, the shibboleth of the "liberal" ecclesiastical and theological tendencies.

The Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, became a shibboleth for Reagan, the believer in Armageddon.

The Alexandrians, led by Cyril, stood for the doctrine of the perfect union of two complete natures in one person, and made Novi/cos the shibboleth of orthodoxy.

Synonyms:

manner of speaking, delivery, speech,

Antonyms:

misconstruction, euphemism, dysphemism, laugh,