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How to use Rites in a sentence

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Rites of passage denote an individual's transition from one existence to another.
Parish priest Fr Francis McAteer administered the Last Rites at the scene.
Rites of passage, which disconnect ritual moments from the normal flow of life, break the passage of time, representing it as a constant replay of opposed movements.
Rites of degradation involve dismissing or disempowering people.
Rites done on a lakeshore or seashore can be illuminated with balefires of dried driftwood collected prior to the rite.
Rites of passage show anthropologists what social hierarchies, values and beliefs are important in specific cultures.
Pratchett's popularity increased when the BBC's Woman's Hour broadcast The Colour of Magic as a serial in six parts, and later Equal Rites.
The body of the saint was exhumed, and according to the Rites of Durham, was discovered to be uncorrupted.
His was one of two books considered likely to win, the other being Rites of Passage by William Golding.
The Yongle Emperor was still in Beijing at the time, but he ordered the Ministry of Rites to give monetary rewards to the fleet's personnel.
For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.
He also requested the Ministry of Rites to recommend someone to serve as the new king.
These rites were based on local usages and combined elements of the Roman and Gallican Rites.
Children and Heirs shall perform the accustom'd Rites of Parentation.
The Introductory Rites are brought to a close by the Collect Prayer.
Rites and sacrifices were carried out by priests known as druids.
With this collection of paintings and drawings entitled Rites of Passage, Silke Berens confronts her audience with these and many more poignant questions.
He broke the white wafer into small pieces and placed one in his mouth, whispering the rites of Communion.
Swung around the head by a string they produce quivering vibrations in the air and have particular significance for initiation rites.
The Acholi tribe has sophisticated rites of forgiveness and reconciliation, a lesson to those of us in the West.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Besides being poet, essayist, and calligraphist, he was a Secretary in the Board of Rites.
But when last orders inevitably lead to Last Rites, you'll pray the HSE has evolved enough to let you die with dignity.
Little is known of his life, except that he was Secretary to the Board of Rites and retired from this position to lead the contemplative life.
The birk held a high place in the secret rites and customs of the Ballad Age.
It is only in late Acheulean times that human burial rites or interments begin and that skeletal remains are found.
It was only by religious rites that the aleatory element in the struggle for existence could be controlled.
Consequently it remains in many respects the most ancient monument of primitive rites and ceremonies in Christendom.
Equally so the rites, ceremonies, and nature of the cabalistic order he established.
These two rites really begin the catechumenate or period of instruction in the faith and discipline of the church.
In the introduction of the funeral pile and the cinerary urn, we have one important evidence of the adoption of novel rites.
She was a slave to hideous rites, gazing at the apparitional snake.
The rites of sacrifice survived in the same forms as in the British Isles.
Dew from the Bermudas was probably wanted for some of his magical rites.
The marriage rites are a blend of the Canarese and Telugu types.
Newland Archer arrived at the Chiverses' on Friday evening, and on Saturday went conscientiously through all the rites appertaining to a week-end at Highbank.
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