Dictionary Entry
ritualism
ritualism is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
- 4noun
the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies
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