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Definition of Taboos
1. taboo [v] - See also: taboo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taboos
Literary usage of Taboos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"In the present connection mention should also be made of the taboos so frequently
imposed on the intercourse between a married man and his parents-in-law or ..."
2. Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality by Hutton Webster (1916)
"On the other hand, new-born children with their mothers, strangers, manslayers,
and mourners are frequently subjected to taboos which exist in the social ..."
3. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"TABOO AND LICENSE The examples of taboos and of license cited from various ...
That all of the taboos or all of the cases ot privilege should have a common ..."
4. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"That all of the taboos or all of the cases ot privilege should have a common
psychological basis, is a highly improbable assumption on the face of it. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Indirect taboos are imposed in various ways, and unless they ire removed may ...
Particular taboos thus imposed seem to be abrogated by the declaration of ..."
6. Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang (1901)
"XIV FIRST-FRUITS AND taboos TABOO is one of the few savage words which have struck
root in ... Many of the Ten Commandments are, in this sense, taboos. ..."
7. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"... men who have partaken of human flesh as a ceremonial rite are subject for a
long time afterwards to many restrictions or taboos of the sort we have been ..."
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