0 a belief or custom that is not now considered as important and correct as it was in the past:
Most usage guides simply list a selection of ancient shibboleths, occasionally spiced up by the prejudices of dieir compiler.
Is it not time, therefore, we forgot shibboleths and slogans and looked at the facts of this question.
There is no place today for unthinking adherence to outworn shibboleths.
The words "industrial democracy" have certain shibboleths attached to them.
We should not too lightly adopt platitudinous shibboleths about any privileged class.
We do not live by words like "arbitration" and see them as shibboleths.
I also think that it is quite wrong to suggest that all the old shibboleths of the 1940s and 1950s should not he re-examined.
The fact is that, one by one, the education shibboleths are being abandoned.
