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liminality
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n.1.(Anthropology) that temporary state during a rite of passage when the participant lacks social status or rank, is required to follow specified forms of conduct, and is expected to show obedience and humility.


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Franco Giacone, in his "Jean Mercier en son tempo, Documents nouveaux et pieces liminaires," presents epigrams, one Latin, four Greek, and one Hebrew, in which Mercier urges the study of Hebrew in order to understand "les mysteres de la Creation, les mysteres des prophetes, le sens de la nouvelle loi" (25).
Resume L'article se penche, d'une part, sur la maniere dont les politiques gouvernementales et le discours public ont contribue a rehausser et a maintenir le statut liminaire des refugiees somaliennes au Canada et, d'autre part, sur la facon dont les Canadiennes d'origine somalienne s'y sont opposees afin de creer un sens et une place pour elles et leur famille en Amerique du Nord.
Car lire n'est intransitif, absolu, comme nous venons de le souligner, que dans l'imperatif liminaire de la Revelation (sourate XCVI).
 
 
 
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