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Type Words
Type of advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent
Derivation ritualism
Type Words
Type of cultural anthropologist, social anthropologist
Derivation ritualism

Examples of ritualist

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Both types of temples have a resident ritualist or priest known as a Kurukkal.
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It is a duty of the totem to guard the ritualist and the medicine man while he is asleep.
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Dramas in Sri Lanka began first with ritualist performances of early polytheistic religions.
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Jaimini's Mimamsa is a ritualist counter-movement to the mysticist Vedanta currents of his day.
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However, the terms high churchman and ritualist have often been wrongly treated as interchangeable.
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When the Public Worship Regulation Act was passed in 1874, those who disapproved of his ritualist liturgical practices set a prosecution in motion.
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His approach combined capable preaching, the introduction of ritualist practices and the establishment of parish organisations designed to help the more needy residents of the area.
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The revival of pre-Reformation ritual by many of the high church clergy led to the designation ritualist being applied to them in a somewhat contemptuous sense.
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At state assemblies the chief ritualist would tell the story of the divine origin of the founder, as evinced by foundation myths, and his extraordinary deeds in war and peace.
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More examples
  • An advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms
  • A social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies
  • (ritualism) the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
  • Ritualism, in the history of Christianity, refers to an emphasis on the rituals and liturgical ceremony of the church, in particular of Holy Communion.
  • (ritualism) The belief that it is necessary for rites or repeated sets of actions to be carried out
  • The word "Ritualists" is the term now most commonly employed to denote that ...
  • (Ritualism) n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
  • (Ritualism) Devotion to the use of rituals and ceremonies above and beyond the call of sanity; often, an uncritical acceptance of rituals constructed in the past.
  • (Ritualism) occurs when an individual continues to do things as proscribed by society but forfeits the achievement of the goals.