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symbolic act

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meanings of symbolicand act


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symbolic
adjective
uk /sɪmˈbɒl.ɪk/ us /sɪmˈbɑː.lɪk/
representing ...
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act
noun
uk /ækt/ us /ækt/
something that ...
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Examples of symbolic act


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Instead, she performs a symbolicact, a simple gesture.
This symbolicact coincided with the adoption of a more rigorous enquiry procedure based on depositions by witnesses.
Among these was his symbolicact of going under the yoke.
This testifies to the fact that the environmental dependency is not due to an immaterial symbolicact.
Or is it primarily a symbolicact used to asser t ethnolinguistic autonomy?
It is just fiction, a symbolicact.
Taken so conspicuously out of their own allotted social place by this symbolicact, these heroic, unthreatening representatives of the working class made that of their social superiors much safer.
We counted all events during this time period that were coded as 131, 132 and 133 (make informal complaint, make formal complaint or protest, symbolicact).
Now he has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a symbolicact on the basis of flimsy arguments.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
This is a symbolicact of deep and momentous significance.
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I suspect, however, that the time has come for some more symbolicact of friendship.
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That is a tiny symbolicact, but one which transcends all differences of nationality, language, and belief.
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Hansard archive

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If such a declaration were only a symbolicact, and if it conferred no additional powers—which is not true—it is nevertheless necessary for that purpose.
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Hansard archive

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Neither has anyone suggested that it could be taken as anything except as a symbolicact.
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Hansard archive

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This is a crucial, symbolicact to indicate that the future will be different from the past.
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Hansard archive

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Accession is not a symbolicact, ladies and gentlemen: it has legal value.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Financial participation is - shall we say - a symbolicact.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
One of the lessons to be learnt from that phrase is that anything can be made into a symbolicact if we choose to judge it as such.
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Hansard archive

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The symbolicact of handing out red tortoise cakes on this day signifies that one's daughter has reached maturity and is of a marriageable age.
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However, various human rights groups noted it as primarily a symbolicact.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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