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rite [raɪt] N

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last rites
últimos m pl sacramentos

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Nor is thy hand free from blasphemy while thou loathest the rites of love.
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She had the power to fertilise, multiply and fructify plant and animal seed, and her laws and rites protected all activities of the agricultural cycle.
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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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For humanly instituted rites are not sacraments, properly speaking, because human beings do not have the authority to promise grace.
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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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They also atone for their sins through such punishing rites as flagellation.
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The calendrical rites include the five-day marginal period at the end of the year.
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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 maintain a nomadic sea-based culture and live almost entirely on boats and practice shamanic rites.
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They also tell religious stories at village festivals and commemorations marking an individual's rites of passage.
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