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  • verb Present participle of taboo.

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Examples

  • The tabooing was a less ornamental but more decidedly useful formality, for by it his person was declared sacred and inviolable.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

  • At the same time, a new kind of tabooing emerged in treating some subjects, where all look with suspicion at any journalist who tries to look with open eyes at whatever the investigator Mehlis is doing.

    Thursday, December 08, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • At the same time, a new kind of tabooing emerged in treating some subjects, where all look with suspicion at any journalist who tries to look with open eyes at whatever the investigator Mehlis is doing.

    Saturday, December 31, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • Re Andrew's points 1 and 2, necronym tabooing lasts for different times in different areas.

    languagehat.com: LINKING LANGUAGES. 2005

  • In part this may have been an i=effeiciency move, to avoid the neuisance involved in tabooing the Emperor's personal name throughout the kingdom.

    languagehat.com: SHIH SHIH. 2004

  • But why should the natural predominance of heterosexual impulses lead to tabooing homosexual impulses and making them a crime?

    Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

  • But why should the natural predominance of heterosexual impulses lead to tabooing homosexual impulses and making them a crime?

    Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

  • But why should the natural predominance of heterosexual impulses lead to tabooing homosexual impulses and making them a crime?

    Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

  • But why should the natural predominance of heterosexual impulses lead to tabooing homosexual impulses and making them a crime?

    Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981

  • All the chiefs find these people of the greatest use in protecting their property, for they possess the power of tabooing, and when once this ceremony is performed over any person or thing, no one dares to touch either; and for

    A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle

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