Rites is valid Scrabble Word

Is rites a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
5 points in Scrabble
5 points in WWF

Definitions for RITES in dictionary:

NOUN:

RITE, a ceremonial act or procedure
a religious or other solemn ceremony or act
a body of customary observances characteristic of a Church or a part of it
a social custom, practice, or conventional act

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How to use RITES in a sentence

The Christians would naturally desire to separate themselves in burial from the heathen, and to avoid everything having the semblance of pagan rites.
Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
The following morning, after participating in the funeral rites over the lamented dead, Mr.
Although they are Mohammedans, they practice several ancient Jewish rites.
The priests and conspirators told the native soldiers that it was only a step toward the abolition of all their rites and customs.
It is likely that every religion in the world has used words or practised rites in one age, which have become distasteful or repugnant to another.
You shall keep them at home, with laughter and song and rites of love.
He did not destroy heathen temples nor forbid heathen rites, but he did everything to favor the Christians and make Christian laws.
He also granted a truce of twelve days for funeral rites in honor of Hector.
The archbishop of Paris refused the rites of burial to the body.

There were popular deities and rites to which the Brahmans were not opposed and which they countenanced when it suited them.
For it was not possible for them to worship God in their accustomed way, but they were excluded both from all sacraments and from all sacred rites.
In this case his relations bury him as they would a dead buffalo, refusing to admit the corpse into their house, or to perform any funeral rites.
In Tro-Cortesianus 35b, 36b, 37a, 37b, the pages showing the rites of the four years, the dog appears in various attitudes.
A week later, on the forty-ninth day, the funeral rites would cease.
The union of the traditions and rites of the Oriental religions, viewed as mysteries, with the spirit of Greek philosophy is the characteristic of the epoch.
He stood by, solemnly, while the final sad rites were being performed, and lingered even after all was over.
From this we can understand the meaning and object of ancestral rites.
Meanwhile the mythology of the God has often, in or out of the rites, nothing rational about it.
On the following day at noon, he received the last rites of the church.
When its perfume rises, the shrines of the past are unveiled, and the magical rites of reminiscence begin.
You afterward spoke of additional rites or performances that either should or could be effected.
The rites of the Roman and Eastern Churches have borrowed much from pagan ceremonial but still they have not wholly departed from the traditions of the synagogue.
But it was not even pretended that these rites commenced at the time when the things which they commemorate were said to have happened.
Messengers are sent on long journeys for sacred water, pine boughs, and other special objects for these rites.

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