Sentence example with the word 'taboos'

taboos

Last update: July 7, 2015


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In the most developed forms, such as the offering of soma, they assumed a great importance; (r) the sacrificer had to pass from the world of man into a world of the gods; consequently he was separated from the common herd of mankind and purified; he underwent ceremonies emblematic of rebirth and was then subject to numberless taboos imposed for the purpose of maintaining his ceremonial purity.   [Please select]

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Their lives, he says, "are lived in fear, in restraint, in submission, in suffering, subject to galling, unreasoning, unnecessary, arbitrary prohibitions and taboos, and to customary duties equally galling, unreasoning, unnecessary, and arbitrary."   [Please select]

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Is it not true that the childhood of our grandmothers was often lived "in fear, in restraint, in submission, in suffering subject to galling, unreasoning, unnecessary, arbitrary prohibitions and taboos, and to customary duties equally galling, unreasoning, unnecessary, and arbitrary."   [Please select]

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DIETARY TABOOS 250 CHAPTER XI In which we learn an old trick.   [Please select]

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CHAPTER X _In which the ban is lifted_ DIETARY TABOOS MISUNDERSTOOD STOMACHS =Modern Improvements.   [Please select]

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She considered their friendliness, she sneered at "social distinctions," she raged at her own taboos--and she continued to regard them as retainers and herself as a lady.   [Please select]

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