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German
Pronunciation
Participle
verknöchert
- past participle of verknöchern
Adjective
verknöchert (strong nominative masculine singular verknöcherter, comparative verknöcherter, superlative am verknöchertsten)
- (figuratively) ossified
- 1914, Erich Mühsam, Idealistisches Manifest, in: Alarm. Manifeste aus 20 Jahren, Der Syndikalist, page 52:
Die Jugend, der Nachwuchs, die kommende Generation hat sich mündig erklärt. Das Alter ist nicht berechtigt, mit seinen überlebten, verknöcherten Prinzipien daran zu rütteln.- The youth, the offspring, the coming generation declared itself of age. The aged are not entitled, with their outdated, ossified principles, to question it.
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