rites in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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rites in the PONS Dictionary

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rites Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

last rites
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The tuna is a group of students who get together to sing and play music. Up until recently, only male students were admitted to tunas, but in the last few years new tunas have been formed for female students. In order to become a member of a tuna, certain initiation rites involving trials of courage have to be successfully completed.
tuna
to give sb the last rites
administrar a alguien los últimos sacramentos
to give the last rites to
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They also atone for their sins through such punishing rites as flagellation.
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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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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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They also tell religious stories at village festivals and commemorations marking an individual's rites of passage.
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They can record them privately in secular contracts, or solemnise or sacralise them, if they want, according to the rites of whatever religions they believe in.
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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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It was also supposedly a favored place for rites that included fornication.
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Nor is thy hand free from blasphemy while thou loathest the rites of love.
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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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Offerings played an important role in religious rites.
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