rites in the PONS Dictionary

rites Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

satanic rite
satanistički obred
funeral rite
pogrebni obred
last rites
posmrtni obred

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Initiation rites are sometimes spur-of-the-moment, such as forcing a blindfolded candidate to be lifted into the air by a block and tackle.
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It created a new type of religious man, a type that placed emotion above reason and rites, and religious exaltation above knowledge.
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Mythological scenes and depictions related to burial rites play a subsidiary role.
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It was also supposedly a favored place for rites that included fornication.
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The literal rose and its essence or attar has also played a role in religious and spiritual rites which ofttimes would have been held in secret.
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Nor is thy hand free from blasphemy while thou loathest the rites of love.
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Rumors held it to be the site of various occult rites.
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Although rites also mark the transition to womanhood in many Chadian societies, such ceremonies are much shorter.
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For humanly instituted rites are not sacraments, properly speaking, because human beings do not have the authority to promise grace.
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The rites ultimately functioned to reinforce social order, insofar as they allowed those tensions to be expressed without leading to actual rebellion.
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