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tabus

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  • noun Plural form of tabu.

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Examples

  • First converted by the Catholics, he threw down the idols, broke the tabus, cleaned out the native priests, executed a few of the recalcitrant ones, and sent all his subjects to church.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • Wesleyans, called back the exiles from Samoa, invited in the traders, held a general love-feast, took the lid off, proclaimed religious liberty and high tariff, and as for himself went back to the worship of his ancestors, dug up the idols, reinstated a few octogenarian priests, and observed the tabus.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • Perhaps the perfumed air was enough to loosen the sexual tabus of the people of Nkumai.

    Enjoyment 2010

  • There are times for tabus and times to ignore them, and at the end of a particularly terrible scream that signaled a new plateau of pain, I got up and went into the house.

    Enjoyment 2010

  • While 'personal space' is less than what you have in the US, Germans still have social tabus on touching, especially in such a public forum as the G8 summit.

    Boing Boing: July 16, 2006 - July 22, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Nobres intenções, fácil de dizer, difícil de implantar: no terreno, a influência dos tabus e a preparação pessoal de cada um prejudica a abordagem destes temas.

    Leituras Artur 2008

  • If I perish by the anger of Pele, then you may fear the power of Pele; but if I trust in Jehovah, and he should save me from the wrath of Pele, when I break through her tabus, then you must fear and serve the Lord Jehovah.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • You are a creature of the despotism, a pukka sahib, tied tighter than a monk or a savage by an unbreakable system of tabus.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • The one constant in every society of humankind is that only those who obey the laws, tabus, and customs of marriage are true adults.

    Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

  • He had inherited great sanctity and was growing into an able if not a clever man; there was no greater astronomer than he, and it was tacitly understood that he would in time become guardian of the tabus.

    Hawaii Michener, James 1959

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