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foundation-stone

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the stones of which the foundation of a building is composed; specifically, a corner-stone.

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Examples

  • And the foundation-stone of service, in his case, was obedience.

    CHAPTER XXIII 2010

  • The stranger who will nonetheless stop and help a wounded man even as that man's pious brethren pass him by, simply because we consider empathy to all a foundation-stone of ethics.

    On Sophistry and Subjectivity Hal Duncan 2009

  • The stranger who will nonetheless stop and help a wounded man even as that man's pious brethren pass him by, simply because we consider empathy to all a foundation-stone of ethics.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • However the most controversial aspect from an Irish point of view is the likelihood that the treaty will be used to advance the concept of a 'European army', which would violate the principle of neutrality which has been a foundation-stone of the State.

    How Our Masters Conspire Against Us 2008

  • However the most controversial aspect from an Irish point of view is the likelihood that the treaty will be used to advance the concept of a 'European army', which would violate the principle of neutrality which has been a foundation-stone of the State.

    Archive 2008-04-13 2008

  • It is the foundation-stone of all Socialist criticism that the existence of private property in the means of production involves private property in the destinies of society and in the lives of its members ; and it follows that the proletarian not only cannot enforce his right to a share in controlling the society in which he lives he cannot even enforce his right to live in it!

    Servility or Freedom? 2008

  • Their castles he was acquainted with from turret to foundation-stone; and as for the miscellaneous antiquities scattered about the country, he knew every one of them, from a cromlech to a cairn, and could give as good an account of each as if he had lived in the time of the Danes or Druids.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Let not the same prophetic hymn be sung when we commence a new Theatre, which was performed on the occasion of laying the foundation-stone of a certain edifice, “Behold the endless work begun.”

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Saviour takes the occasion of saying, "upon this stone I will build my Church": by which it is manifest that by the foundation-stone of the Church was meant the fundamental article of the Church's faith.

    Leviathan 2007

  • If Guest implicitly shades in the Homeric instance as the ancient or archaic foundation-stone in this structure of music-and-dilemma

    Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 2003

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  • "His mother was a Chapel foundation-stone, his father a violent drunk, so gentle forgiveness infuriates him and tyranny both revolts and attracts him." - from Touchstone by Laurie R. King, Chapter 14

    May 8, 2021