tabooing
- present participle of taboo.
Example Sentences
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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 Melville, Herman
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 I can't lose a day of this wonder, and fortunately dear Aunt Ann never dreams of tabooing my sight-seeing.
From Against Odds A Detective Story by Lynch, Lawrence L.
In tabooing the standpoint of sport, wherever possible, from these chapters, occasional reference, where it overlaps the interests of the field-naturalist, is inevitable.
From Birds in the Calendar by Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George)
Instead of tabooing our impulses, we must redirect them.
From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter
