ritualism
[rich-oo-uh-liz-uh m]
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Origin of ritualism
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Contemporary Examples
Students moan and growl and shriek and yawp, as if exorcising demons in a ritualistic ceremony.
There was even a free-spirited frock made of ropes, which flung about through her ritualistic dance.
They repeat tasks over and over with a ritualistic and often perfectionist bent.
This junkie is about to begin a three-day, neo-African, sometimes-terrifying, ritualistic trip.
How did the troubled young girl go about drawing sex acts in her notebook that mirrored the ritualistic killings?
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March 10, 2014
Historical Examples
It was the neatest, best-stored Ritualistic cupboard in Bumsteadville.
It is but a ritualistic obeisance I have paid the gods inside.
Journeys to BagdadCharles S. Brooks
That last, by the way, has probably survived in a ritualistic form.
Anything You Can Do ...Gordon Randall Garrett
And compose some Ritualistic epigrams to say to Mr. Smith to-night.
The Green CarnationRobert Smythe Hichens
The appeal of a ritualistic service is to the mystical in one's nature.
Riviera TownsHerbert Adams Gibbons
ritualistic
- of, relating to, or suggestive of ritualism
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ritualism
- emphasis, esp exaggerated emphasis, on the importance of rites and ceremonies
- the study of rites and ceremonies, esp magical or religious ones
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Word Origin and History for ritualistic
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