Ritualism

What do we mean by ritualism?

The practice or observance of religious ritual. noun

Insistence on or adherence to ritual. noun

A system of public worship which consists in forms regularly established by law, precept, or custom, as distinguished from that which is largely extemporaneous and therefore variable and left to the judgment of the conductor of the worship. noun

Observance of prescribed forms in religious worship or in reverence of anything. noun

Specifically— The science of ritual; the systematic study of liturgical rites. noun

An observance of ritual in public worship founded upon a high estimate of the value of symbolism and a belief in the practical importance of established rites, and particularly in the efficacy of sacraments, as having been divinely appointed to be channels of spiritual grace to those who use them; more especially, the principles and practices of those Anglicans who are called Ritualists. noun

A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual. noun

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. noun

The belief that it is necessary for rites or repeated sets of actions to be carried out. noun

Exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship noun

The study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies noun

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Adjectives that are often used to describe ritualism:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective ritualism:
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Words that sound like ritualism:
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