Ritualism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RITUALISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• regular observance or practice of ritual
• the regular observance or practice of ritual, especially when excessive or without regard to its function.
• a traditional or fixed way of behaving
• exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites and ceremonies
• A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
• Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
• the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
• exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the use of ritual

Words related to RITUALISM

ritualisms12 ritualist9 ritualists10

Words that contain RITUALISM

ritualisms12 spiritualism16 antiritualism15 spiritualisms17 antiritualisms16

How to use RITUALISM in a sentence

• If the people wish to return again to ritualism, let them have the Gothic church.
• In regard to the worship of God, Calvin was opposed to splendid churches, and to all ritualism.
• The Troubadour hailed the return of spring, but with him it was a piece of empty ritualism.
• Take, for instance, the case of symbol and ritualism.
• But whenever they talk of ritualism they always seem to mean the ritualism of the Church.
• The continually increasing ritualism at the court of the Chou called for more and more of these men.
• It has produced a revival of religion amongst men, and consequently a slump in ritualism.
• This ornate ritualism is not authorized in any known canonical text, but it is thoroughly Indian.
• Religion had become a debasing ritualism, with charms and incantations, fear of the influence of the stars, and belief in dreams and omens.
• All his precepts were conceived in the sour and contracted spirit of mere ritualism.
• The evangelical pastors of the primitive Church repudiated their zeal for ritualism, and gave the right hand of fellowship to Marcus and his newly-organized community.
• Its opposition to ritualism seems, in the third and fourth centuries, to have been offensive to the ecclesiastical leaders in the Western metropolis.
• Ritualism and dogma lead to self-righteousness and bigotry, which freeze out the spiritual element.
• Morality was made more prominent, and mere ritualism less obtrusive.
• Yeats or the Catholic ritualism of Francis Thompson.
• But his work as poet and painter prepared the world for ritualism in literature.
• On the other hand, the complications of ritualism were gradually growing in their elaborate details.

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