touchstone
ਕਸਵੱਟੀ
definition
noun
Small black stones were used as touchstones to test the colour, and hence purity, of gold.
a piece of fine-grained dark schist or jasper formerly used for testing alloys of gold by observing the color of the mark that they made on it.
example
I would have thought ID cards are a pretty fundamental issue if not a 'touchstone' of liberal credentials.
That was his political 'touchstone' , his point of reference, the rock upon which he built everything else.
Smith endorsed capitalism as a means to his ultimate value - control of arbitrary rule, a premise that has remained a 'touchstone' of liberalism.
His reference to the Cold War as his 'touchstone' gives him away.
‘To touch’ in reference to fine metals such as gold refers to the 'touchstone' used to test the purity of the metal.
Considerations on the French Revolution would become a 'touchstone' for the liberals under the Bourbons.
Nor has he challenged the appellant's case that the requirements of the Convention provide a 'touchstone' for judging the rationality of his decision and the policy pursuant to which it was reached.
Such reference has been the 'touchstone' for an assessment of trade unions over the last two decades.
In a sense, an extensive vocabulary appears to have mistakenly become a 'touchstone' by which one's English proficiency is judged and assessed.
they tend to regard grammar as the 'touchstone' of all language performance
It is a 'touchstone' against which I measure my own political views.
An article in a foreign journal becomes a 'touchstone' and then a norm, unless it is torn asunder by some path-breaking discovery.
Ridley's treatment of the role of inheritance in the determination of intelligence and, more generally, of personality, will be for many readers the 'touchstone' by which his book is judged.
they tend to regard grammar as the 'touchstone' of all language performance
The same example can be cited: in spite of producing unlimited quantities of gold, the 'touchstone' remains the same.
This attitude comes mostly from the idea that American middle-class values are the 'touchstone' from which all else should be judged.
What, in short, is the 'touchstone' by which to recognise a special class of people from members of the general public?
By the Second World War the toleration of COs had begun to be recognized as a 'touchstone' of mature liberalism.
We had no idea the film would become the 'touchstone' for special effects films that it is recognized to be today.
There are Australianisms of language and tone, Australian 'touchstones' of reference, that should be consciously preserved.
We see the standard 'touchstones' - the Wailing Wall, the Dome of the Rock - but we also see the streets, Jerusalem as a town, a city where Jews and Arabs both live.
But these terms, profoundly limiting as they are, are actually 'touchstones' that disputants in the periodical debate would recognize.
Our writings serve as the academy's benchmarks, the ethical 'touchstones' for the noblest of professions.
We are, after all, introduced to him in the first stanza through his tastes, the 'touchstones' he cannot lay aside and by which he judges all else.
Small black stones were used as 'touchstones' to test the colour, and hence purity, of gold.
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