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rite
noun
rite of passage

rite [raɪt] N usu pl

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Nor is thy hand free from blasphemy while thou loathest the rites of love.
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These treasures may have been offered to the river during rites of passage, in mourning, or as thanksgiving for battles won.
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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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The calendrical rites include the five-day marginal period at the end of the year.
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In other cultures a death mask may be a clay or another artifact placed on the face of the deceased before burial rites.
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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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But what about all those other rites of passage and affirmations - the christenings, the 60th birthdays and the silver wedding anniversaries?
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They also atone for their sins through such punishing rites as flagellation.
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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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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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