Rites

Word RITES
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ɹaɪts/

Definitions and meanings of "Rites"

What do we mean by rites?

That which complies with justice, law or reason.

A legal, just or moral entitlement.

The right side or direction.

The right hand or fist.

The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.

The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.

A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).

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The word "rites" in example sentences

Returning to the 1962 rites is costing a good deal of money, particularly in buying expensive liturgical books. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We can now offer both Latin rites in both forms at our center. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Understanding the underlying histories of initiation rites is important because those histories help us to understand how far back in the past antecedent generations of people began to recognize particular life stages in their communities as well as how the strategies they used to guide people through life stages have changed or remained steadfast over time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"When certain rites had to be performed," she writes, "the guardian [of the pot] came from town to officiate." ❋ Unknown (2008)

While this approach to understanding initiation rites is useful for learning about the details pertinent to successful life stage transitions, it often falls short of recovering deep-seated histories that underpinned their initial development in earlier times. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The job of the popularizer of science, trying to get across some idea of quantum mechanics to a general audience that has not gone through these initiation rites, is daunting. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the activity of processing and actively participating in rites such as that of burial, would have required smaller, moveable texts presumably in greater numbers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The reason was, because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies, than in any constant belief: for you may imagine what kind of faith theirs was, when the chief doctors and fathers of their church were the poets. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They had no difficulty accepting gods/rites from the Greeks, Egyptians, Persians and just about everyone with whom they had contact. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The next day being Friday, some of our catholic comrades conscientiously kept lent, having eaten so much the day before, as to be utterly unable to violate this custom of the church, had they even felt so disposed; they are however, by and by, not often so forcibly reminded of the propriety of compliance with religious observances, though the expediency of those rites is often illustrated in a similar manner. ❋ Unknown (1844)

While it is true that the Motu proprio of the Holy Father does not expressly cite the Ambrosian rite, it doesn’t exclude the other Latin rites; if the will of the Holy Father asserts for the Roman rite, considered superior in dignity, consequently much more for the other Latin rites, including the Ambrosian rite. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is where we get the idea of rites of initiation, secret oaths, and mysterious vows. ❋ Carlton Pearson (2010)

This has often been referred to as the rites of spring, and are still celebrated in many countries with such events as a dance around a maypole and other pagan gatherings. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And, O son of Pritha, whatever of good fortune a person obtaineth in consequence of religious rites, that is called providential. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

[9] They also recall the rites of the Passover -- though in this latter the blood was no longer drunk, nor the flesh eaten raw. ❋ Unknown (1920)

For some time after the substitution of English for Latin the term rites was usually, if not invariably adopted; rights would appear to be a comparatively modern error. ' ❋ Unknown (1918)

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