verknöchert

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈknœçɐt/
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Participle

verknöchert

  1. past participle of verknöchern

Adjective

verknöchert (strong nominative masculine singular verknöcherter, comparative verknöcherter, superlative am verknöchertsten)

  1. (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 The aged are not entitled, with their outdated, ossified principles, to question it.

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