Beyond-the-pale Definition

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(idiomatic) Describing behaviour that is considered to be outside the bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgement in civilised company.

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Origin of Beyond-the-pale

  • From pale, a jurisdiction under a given authority; often held by one nation in another country, hence suggesting that anything outside their control was uncivilized. It was in use by the mid-17th century. The phrase may be a reference to the general sense of boundary, but is often understood to refer to the English Pale in Ireland. In the nominally English territory of Ireland, only the pale fell genuinely under the authority of English law, hence the terms within the pale and beyond the pale.

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Beyond-the-pale Sentence Examples

  • It's just continual stories about people that just go beyond the pale.

  • For at the outset Metternich was not alone in maintaining that the war should be allowed to burn itself out " beyond the pale of civilization."

  • Hooper was the first of the bishops to suffer because his Zwinglian views placed him further beyond the pale than Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer.

  • And can it continue to shelter persons who by these flagrant acts place themselves beyond the pale of common rights?

  • But while the theologian incessantly postulated the agency of that God whose nature he deemed beyond the pale of science, the philosopher, following a purely human and natural aim, directed his efforts to the gradual elevation of his part of reason from its unformed state, and to its final union with the controlling intellect which moves and draws to itself the spirits of those who prepare themselves for its influences.

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