Synonyms for touchstone


Grammar : Noun
Spell : tuhch-stohn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʌtʃˌstoʊn

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Définition of touchstone

Origin :
  • late 15c., from touch (v.) + stone (n.). Black quartz, used for testing the quality of gold and silver alloys by the color of the streak made by rubbing them on it. Cf. also basalt. Figurative sense is from 1530s.
  • noun guide
Example sentences :
  • Fictions or realities, could they survive the touchstone of this atom of common sense?
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • Descartes therefore made evidence the touchstone of certainty.
  • Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
  • I shall have a double respect for his opinion, for this is the touchstone of a man's honesty.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • For Vere's eyes were surely a touchstone to discover honesty.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • The answer does not satisfy Socrates, who fears that he is losing his touchstone.
  • Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
  • You can test it now, and by a touchstone that cannot deceive.
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • It is especially her own, and it is the touchstone by which a true heart tests all others.
  • Extract from : « In Direst Peril » by David Christie Murray
  • The bridegroom's offering to the clergyman is indeed the touchstone of his refinement.
  • Extract from : « The Etiquette of To-day » by Edith B. Ordway
  • What is the test, the touchstone, by which we can tell to which class any value belongs?
  • Extract from : « The Booklover and His Books » by Harry Lyman Koopman
  • The touchstone of most animals is the nose, and not the eye.
  • Extract from : « The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers » by John Burroughs

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