taboo
adjective
proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable.
tabooing
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present participleof taboo.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The tabooing was a less ornamental but more decidedly useful formality, for by it his person was declared sacred and inviolable.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
But that's always the way in tabooing societies.
From The British Barbarians by Grant Allen
Instead of tabooing our impulses, we must redirect them.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
But to guard against the possibility of any visual profanation, Donjalolo had authorized an edict, forever tabooing that rock to foot of man or pinion of fowl.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
No doubt there was a time when the stage was so profligate that the Puritans were justified in tabooing it altogether.
From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck
