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  • n  the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
  • n  exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship

  • There are people who attend karate exhibitions to marvel at the discipline and focus that the sport demands of its participants, and the ritualism that evokes hundreds of years of .
  • A big, bumbling bear of a man notable only for his party loyalty, his amiability, and his political ritualism ("I'll go along"), Root's undistinguished career as lawyer and .
  • Governor Henry Simpson Johnston of Oklahoma, who used to lecture on the religious aspects of the Ku Klux Klan, is a profound student of ritualism, spiritualism, occultism, etc.
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  • Joachim Meisner in AFP
    When culture becomes disconnected from religion, from the worship of God, religion becomes ritualism and the culture becomes degenerate,Cardinal Meisner said in a sermon in Cologne Cathedral on Friday.
  • Spike Lee in The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
    He and McBride spoke at an event here, and Lee said although it was a challenging, wide-ranging script, he thought it was essential to retain the "spiritualism, ritualism and religion" from the novel.

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